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'Start the countdown' – Remco Evenepoel ramps up Tour de France preparation with Sierra Nevada altitude training camp

Belgian won't race before July, preferring to build up with training camps and course recons

Cycling News

The ‘ghost lake’ returns: California’s largest lost water body resurfaces after 130 years

Tulare Lake has made a surprising comeback, once known as Pa'ashi by the Tachi Yokut tribe. This rare event shows how a long-gone terminal lake can reclaim its original basin. It used to be the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi until it was drained in the late 1800s…

The Times of India

Winter Storm Watch is Issued as High Winds and Two Feet of Snow are Expected Across Several US States

A late-season winter storm is impacting the western US, bringing heavy snow, strong winds, and dangerous travel conditions. Weather alerts are in effect, with significant snowfall expected in mountainous regions.

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Adam Yates to prepare for Giro d’Italia at altitude after O Gran Camino victory

UAE Emirates-XRG to send whole Giro d’Italia squad to Sierra Nevada

Cycling Weekly

Terrain in Spain: gravel biking in the mountains of Andalucía

A cycle tour of the Sierra Nevada backcountry proves a bumpy but beautiful ride through cinematic scenery

The Guardian - UK

Crews hope to resume recovery of 8 bodies from California avalanche after days of dangerous weather

Crews hope to resume efforts to recover the bodies of eight people killed in an avalanche in California’s Sierra Nevada and search for a person missing but presumed dead on Friday

The Independent UK

Avalanche risks remain high in California after deaths of skiers

Forecasters predict more snow in Sierra Nevada mountains as climate crisis increases threat of dangerous conditions

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Snow drought helped set the stage for deadly California avalanche, leading to unstable conditions

Experts say a weekslong “snow drought” in Norther California's Sierra Nevada helped set the stage for Tuesday's deadly avalanche, after several feet of new snow fell on an earlier layer that had hardened

The Independent UK

Tahoe avalanche: What causes snow slopes to collapse? A physicist and skier explains, with tips for surviving

A deadly avalanche buried a group of backcountry skiers and their guides near Lake Tahoe in California’s Sierra Nevada as an intense storm brought heavy snow to the region on Feb. 17, 2026. Six of the skiers were rescued, but eight others didn’t survive and another was missing. The region…

The Conversation

Lake Tahoe avalanche: 8 skiers dead, one missing after massive slide near Castle Peak

Eight backcountry skiers have been confirmed dead, and one remains missing after a powerful avalanche swept through a guided expedition near Lake Tahoe in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains, authorities said Wednesday.

The Times of India

They survived conquistadors and settlers. Now the Arhuaco are facing an even greater threat

Colombia’s Sierra Nevada has become a strategic prize for drug traffickers and paramilitaries, leaving its Indigenous people threatened with ‘physical and cultural extinction’

The Guardian - UK

Where the wild things thrive: Finding and protecting nature’s climate change safe havens

The idea began in California’s Sierra Nevada, a towering spine of rock and ice where rising temperatures and the decline of snowpack are transforming ecosystems, sometimes with catastrophic consequences for wildlife.

The Conversation

‘You don’t have to hurtle down slopes or dance like crazy at après parties’: readers’ favourite winter mountain holidays in Europe

The Alps, Spain’s Sierra Nevada and the national parks of Sweden and Albania feature among our readers’ treasured winter mountain breaks

The Guardian - UK

‘This is pretty therapeutic’: a pottery retreat in Spain’s Alpujarras

In the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in Andalucía, our writer finds that processing and shaping clay helps him filter out negative thoughts

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Unprecedented glacier melting will leave US peaks ice-free for the first time, new study finds

The glacier melt in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains is unprecedented, a new study shows.

The Guardian - US

Glacier melt will lead to ice-free peaks in California for first time in human history

New research shows massive glaciers in Sierra Nevada projected to melt away by the beginning of the next century

LiveScience

Yosemite's glaciers have survived 20,000 years — but we could be the first people to see Sierra Nevada ice-free

New research finds the disappearance of glaciers in the Sierra Nevada will be unprecedented in the human history of North America.

The Independent UK

California Boy Scout troop rescues former Eagle Scout, 78, lost in Sierra Nevadas

Douglas Montgomery, 78, was stranded in the wilderness without food or supplies for more than a day

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Mireia Benito overcomes tough uphill course and extreme heat to net third straight gold in Spanish National Time Trial Championships

AG Insurance-Soudal pro secures third Nationals TT title in high-altitude time trial in Sierra Nevada

The Conversation

Mountain chickadee chatter: Scientists are decoding the songbird’s complex calls

I approach a flock of mountain chickadees feasting on pine nuts. A cacophony of sounds, coming from the many different bird species that rely on the Sierra Nevada’s diverse pine cone crop, fill the crisp mountain air.

The Guardian - US

US camper missing for weeks found safe in California cabin

Tiffany Slaton of Georgia went missing during a blizzard in April while on solo trip through Sierra Nevada

Cycling News

Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard cross paths in Sierra Nevada as they step up Tour de France preparation at high-altitude training camps

Slovenian and Dane begin vital training block 50 days out from the Tour de France Grand Départ

Cycling News

Strike and protest threat at Sierra Nevada altitude training centre used by multiple WorldTour teams

Demonstrations this month in southern Spain's high performance centre over working conditions could be followed by industrial action in May, trade union warns

The Independent UK

Fired employees fear beloved Yosemite National Park will lose its luster

Yosemite National Park employees who recently were fired by the U.S. government worry cuts will affect the experience of visitors and the welfare of wildlife that thrive in the popular vacation destination located in California’s Sierra Nevada

LiveScience

Earth's crust is peeling away under California

A section of the upper mantle and crust under the Sierra Nevada mountains is peeling away, in a process that may mimic how the continents were formed.

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