Paddlers needed for upcoming Truckee River Clean-Up!

It’s time for the annual Keep Truckee Meadows Beautiful Truckee River Clean-up! We need paddlers to help clean up after a big season on the mighty Truckee River. Tahoe Whitewater Tours is providing IKs and rafts again this year so all you will need is a pfd, helmet, and gear to keep warm in the water. We will meet at Barbara Bennet Park Saturday morning (September 25th) and be off the river around noon. Read more

Volunteers needed in the Alta Toquima Wilderness

Friends of Nevada Wilderness and the Austin Ranger District will be scouting and flagging a route for a volunteer trail maintenance project this coming weekend.  We need volunteers to help with the scouting process, but we also just want to get people out to see this amazing area and experience  a great wilderness trail.

Help out and get rewarded through our Action Rewards volunteer program. Read more

Volunteer Trail Building Workdays

Check out our new summer projects! Join the Tahoe Rim Trail Association for a day of trail building. No experience is necessary! As a volunteer you will learn new skills, build trail, construct rock features, meet like minded people and give back to your community. Contact Amanda at trails@tahoerimtrail.org with questions or click here for more information. Read more

UC Davis needs volunteers at three Tahoe environmental facilities

Incline Village, NV – The UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center (TERC) is looking for docents to provide guided tours of its science education center. The UC Davis Thomas J. Long Foundation Education Center is located on the campus of Sierra Nevada College, inside the Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences. Docents provide free guided tours to the public, Tuesday – Friday, 1 – 5pm and on Saturdays, Memorial Day through Labor Day. The center also caters to fifth and sixth-grade school groups by providing hands-on science activities. Read more

Volunteerism is what makes a community a home, by Delmo Andreozzi

Elko, Nevada – I find myself being grateful and touched by the families and friends, businesses and clubs, city, county, state, and tribal departments working together to make a difference. Each year, a sea of volunteers colorfully outfitted in those hard to miss green t-shirts from all walks of life and ages, rollup their sleeves for a few hours, enthusiastically brandishing garbage bags and flower pots to actively transform this home that we all enjoy. Read more

Ski and snowboard volunteers needed to help kids on the slopes

Ski or Snowboard for FREE while helping disadvantaged children onto the slopes for the first time! SkiDUCK is a brand new volunteer-based non-profit organization providing FREE skiing and snowboarding for disadvantaged youth in the Reno/Tahoe area, and is seeking volunteers for the remainder of the season. Read more

Spring trainings with Tahoe Rim Trail

The summer trail season is fast approaching, though you wouldn’t know it with our recent storms! To prepare for a great summer, the TRTA is offering many training opportunities this spring. Learn how to build trail, become a hike leader, navigate in the snow, get certified in Wilderness First Aid and more! Check out the full list below for our exciting summer programs. Read more

Soldiers disabled in Iraq gain confidence by learning to ski

Tahoe City, CA – As part of a week of skiing and celebration, 25 active-duty U.S. soldiers and marines will hit the slopes Wednesday, March 17, Friday, March 19, and Saturday, March 20 for the Wounded Warrior Ability Camp at Disabled Sports USA Far West, located at Lake Tahoe’s Alpine Meadows Ski Resort, for ski and snowboard lessons. Read more

A day to make me smile at Disabled Sports

You can get as deep as you want to about volunteering and our Action Rewards program. You can say it’s about doing good, making people feel better, making the environment better or whatever, but that doesn’t really get at the simplicity of why we all do it. Truth is, it just feels good. When I walk away from a day of volunteering, I’m smiling, and that’s all the reward I need. Read more

Our volunteer program in action

There’s something special about taking someone out for a skiing lesson and listening to him laugh all the way down the mountain. It was particularly special because this student was nonverbal and the only communication we had from him all day was that laughter. Sharing the joy of skiing as a volunteer with Disabled Sports USA Far West, is simply a good day. Read more

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