It takes a little bit of gumption, to say the least, to go out and dig yourself a lake in the middle of the desert.
But when lifelong dream met ideal circumstance, Carson Valley resident and longtime water ski enthusiast Doug Lippincott knew exactly what to do.
It took him five months to finish that first lake and, nearly 16 years later, he finds himself and his newly-christened Western Oasis Wakeplace on the technological forefront of one of the fastest-growing action sports in the country … Details