40th Annual Ski & Snowboard Swap

November 4 | 11:00 am to 4:00 pm | Truckee Community Recreation Center

Come to the Community Recreation Center Gym for the 40th Annual Truckee Ski & Snowboard Swap. Buy and sell your used ski and snowboard gear. Join the fun and find unbelievable bargains on new and used winter equipment for the entire family. Local reps from ski shops and resorts will be on hand to answer your questions.

From Truckee Donner Parks and Recreation

Truckee Library Grand Re-Opening Ribbon Cutting Celebration & Children’s Events Nov. 8-9

November 7th-9th | Truckee Library

Join the Truckee Library for its grand re-opening on November 7, from 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. The library has been undergoing a refresh since the end of July and now features new flooring, paint, and furniture. The festivities will kick off with a ribbon cutting with the Truckee Chamber of Commerce and Truckee Town Council members. In addition to partaking in light refreshments provided by the Friends of the Truckee Library, the public is invited to see their new space as well as the restored stained glass that previously was hung in the west-facing window. The stained glass is now hung in a lightbox above the library’s mantle.

Grand re-opening celebrations will continue with children’s activities on November 8th and 9th.

From Truckee Library

Downtown Holiday Festival and Bud Fish Tree Lighting Ceremony

November 17th | 4:15-6pm | Down Town Truckee

Celebrate the Holidays in Historic Downtown Truckee! For more than 40 years the Truckee Downtown Merchants Association and Truckee Rotary have collaborated to share in honoring Truckee’s community.

Small trees decorated by more than 600 local elementary students welcome you into businesses, the Truckee Rotary brings Santa and hot cocoa. TDMA and the Town provide festive holiday lighting and cheer throughout downtown Truckee. The highlight is the lighting of the traditional Bud Fish Tree at 5:20, in remembrance of this beloved Truckee community member. 

From Truckee Downtown Merchants Association

17th Annual Passport to Dining

November 2nd | 6pm | North Tahoe Event Center

Passport to Dining promises to be an evening you won’t want to miss! Enjoy a delicious and fun evening of unlimited tastings to excite the palate – featuring up to 30 tasting stations including restaurants, caterers, breweries and wineries. While enjoying tastings, attendees may purchase raffle tickets and bid on silent auction items and packages. The auction and raffle are recognized as one of the best in North Lake Tahoe featuring Northern California Getaway Packages and many additional valuable items. 

Tickets must be purchased in advance. Advance tickets are $60 and include unlimited, responsible tastings. Tickets are for guests 21+ years of age and require a valid ID upon arrival. Your ticket includes a commemorative wine glass. We are limiting our total tickets sold to 350, so be sure to purchase your tickets early!

Passport to Dining is brought to you by the North Tahoe Business Association (NTBA), a community benefit organization, and a portion of the net proceeds are donated to Tahoe Truckee School of Music.

From North Tahoe Business Association

33rd Annual Tahoe Chocolate & Wine Festival

November 3rd | 6-9pm | Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe

We are excited to celebrate Sierra Community House’s achievements together with a delightful evening of decadent chocolate creations, wine tasting, heavy appetizers, music, exciting auctions and an engaging program. This year’s theme is Glitter and Gold, promising a glamorous and festive evening.

Sponsorships and tickets are still available. For all questions, contact Allison at aedwards@sierracommunityhouse.org.

From Sierra Community House

Advice for Girls: An All-Women Ski Film

November 6-7th | 5 & 7 pm | Tahoe Art Haus

Advice for Girls puts a spotlight on the collective experience of women in the ski industry. The film showcases advice from three generations of women in skiing. Each generation reminds women and girls of all ages that they are worthy of success, allowed to take up space, and are extremely valuable to the ski industry.

With an intersectional cast featuring all types of women – women of color, queer women, women with disabilities, and more – the crew hopes that everyone can find someone in the film to connect to. “My hope is that the film will help girls skip over some of the limiting beliefs imposed upon past generations of skiers and inspire them to show up as their truest selves,” says producer and athlete Addy Jacobsen.

From Storyteller Overland and Tahoe Art Haus

XC & Backcountry Ski Swap

November 11th | 9 am – 4 pm | Tahoe XC

Your donations allow us to fulfill our mission of promoting a healthy, outdoor-oriented lifestyle for children and adults through education, cross-country skiing, and other self-powered recreation. Whether you’re brand new to cross-country skiing and snowshoeing, or you’re a seasoned powder hound, we look forward to helping you find what you’re looking for.

From Tahoe XC

8th Annual Tahoe Film Fest

November 30th – December 3rd | UC Davis Tahoe Science Center

The premiere section of our programming are environmental films. We try to locate new and important environmental films to showcase as a way of not only educating our young people, but to celebrate the efforts of everyone who helps to maintain the beauty of such a pristine lake and its surroundings.

Tahoe Film Fest also celebrates a section of important American Independent Films, New Films from Latin America and award winning music documentaries.

All proceeds from Tahoe Film Fest benefit UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center (TERC).

For festival details and featured films, view the Film Fest’s website.

From UC Davis Tahoe Science Center

Opening Day for Ski Resorts 

Mt. Rose | November 10th

Northstar | November 17th

Boreal | November 17th

Palisades | November 22nd

Sugar bowl | November 24th

Warren Miller All Time Film Premiere

November 3rd | 6 pm | Olympic Village Events Center

Get ready to go deep into the stuff of which snowy dreams are made with Warren Miller’s ALL TIME. Celebrate the birth of ski towns like Sun Valley and Aspen, icons and innovators like the original Hotdoggers, and the most outlandish locations ever skied. Then, catch up with Maine’s finest athlete of today, Donny Pelletier, and meet the next generation at Woodward Park City. Through it all, Jonny Moseley and special guests will share their own stories to bring us to this moment.

From Palisades Tahoe

Thanksgiving Dinner

November 23rd | 2:30pm | Olympic House

Leave the cooking to us this Thanksgiving! Enjoy a delicious grand buffet with carving stations, holiday side dishes, and desserts. Guests will receive a complimentary glass of champagne upon arrival, and afterward, a full bar will be available for purchase. There will be two separate seatings: 2:30pm or 5:30pm. Please make your reservations by November 20th. Please add every member of your party to your reservation, even children under the age of 4, so we can seat you at a properly sized table. We are excited to see you on Thanksgiving Day at the Olympic House for a truly festive dining experience!

From Palisades Tahoe

Winter Speaker Series #1: Michelle Parker’s A New Perspective

November 30th | 6 pm | Olympic Village Events Center

One of freeskiing’s most recognizable and in-demand talents, Michelle Parker feels most at home when tackling big mountain terrain. 2022 marked the 20th season of Michelle Parker’s professional skiing career, and year after year, a desire to learn and evolve has seen the popular freeskier push the ceiling of the sport.  Parker, now one of the ski industry’s most versatile female skiers, has appeared in over a dozen ski films and in 2013, won Best Female Performance at the Powder Video Awards and at the International Freeski Film Festival for her segment in Matchstick Productions’ Superheroes of Stoke. Over the last several years, the Tahoe native worked with Red Bull to create the popular mini-series Originate. In 2022, Parker took on the role of director for the energy brand’s next film, Continuum.

Just before the Red Bull Continuum film project was slated to launch, Parker’s father was diagnosed with dementia, after already struggling for eight years with Parkinson’s Disease. The reality of the diagnosis allowed Parker to reconsider her priorities in order to work from home and spend as much time with her father as possible. Instead of sending lines with her trademark fluidity, Parker became a part-time caregiver for her father. The new experience gave one of the darlings of the ski industry a new perspective on the fragility of life. In her show A Shift In Perspective, Parker will take us on an emotional journey that showed her how time spent with her father was life’s biggest gift yet, and how this new perspective helped her succeed on a recent big mountain, Alaskan ski expedition.

From Alpenglow Sports and Tahoe Area Mountain Biking Association

Winter Preview at Alpine Club

November 11th | 3 pm | Alpine Club

Ski season is almost here! With only a few days remaining until the scheduled opening day for Northstar California Resort, we want to give all Members a sneak peak at what we’ve been working on for our mountain operations.

Join us on Saturday, November 11, as we open the doors a week early to our Members for our Winter Preview Member Social at Alpine Club! All Members are welcome for the duration of the event that will showcase our unrivaled mountain amenities, including:

• Try our new menu items our culinary experts will serve this season at our Mountaintop retreat, Schaffer’s Camp, and our home base in the heart of the Village at Northstar, Alpine Club.
• Mix and mingle with TMC Members and staff!
• First-hand walk-through of our new 2023-2024 mountain experience so Members can learn all about our new way of operating this season and be READY for Opening Day.
• And be sure to bring your gear for Ski Valet season storage!

We are so excited to showcase all that we’ve been working on to celebrate and elevate the unrivaled convenience and access that our mountain touchpoints offer.

From Tahoe Mountain Club