Lake Tahoe looking to bring prosperity to basin
By Ed Fletcher, Sacramento Bee
Recently some 2,000 yoga enthusiasts made like warriors, formed trees and played eagle amid the pine-scented air, cool breezes and breathtaking beauty offered by Lake Tahoe.
By nightfall, the visitors to Squaw Valley Resort, from as far away as Canada and the Eastern Seaboard, grooved to pulsing beats from nationally known musical artists.
Barton Hospital's bike fitting program run by Jason Collin is part of the prosperity plan via destination health care. Photo/Kathryn Reed
If the Tahoe Basin economy must shift – as a recently unveiled study suggests – from relying on gamblers to appealing to environmentally conscious tourists, events such as the Wanderlust Yoga & Music Festival are its future.