TAHOE CITY — Powder: Tahoe’s white gold. It’s what drives winter alarm clocks, what sends skiers into a morning freeze, out of warmed cars, into whited parking lots, hands numb, fingers clasping at ski and pole, filing into the resorts and lift lines, waiting, anticipating, calculating the rush and madness of the first virgin run.
It’s an experience Tahoe resident Dave Rintala loves and questions.Â
“The thing that I like to think about is that when skiing was first originated and birthed, it was about powdered snow,†said Rintala … Details