Snippets about Lake Tahoe

• The Tahoe Rim Trail Association is planning a series of snowshoe excursions this winter. More info is online.

• Sugar Bowl signed a 25-year lease with the Truckee Donner Land Trust to operate Royal Gorge.

• People may ski or ride for free with Jonny Moseley at Squaw Valley on Dec. 28 and Dec. 30 from 10am-noon and  at Alpine from 2-4pm. Squaw tours will meet at the Gold Coast Demo Center. Tours at Alpine Meadows will meet at the bottom of Summit Express.

• Lake Tahoe Visitors Authority is asking tourists to take a survey about paid parking.

• This is the inaugural year for Squaw to shoot off fireworks on New Year’s Eve. They will light up the sky at 7pm, right after the 6:30pm torchlight parade.