Noel Kirkpatrick is an editor and writer based in Tacoma, Washington. He covers many topics, including animals, science, and the environment. There are few things more romantic than the notion of ...

Picture yourself curled up under a heated blanket, immersed in a really good book, while snow gathers on the porch of your very own tiny house. Nothing but $30,000 and a small piece of property stand ...

TAHOE CITY, Calif. — A family in California woke up to a snow cave surrounding their cabin. Mary Heller and her family spend time in their cabin in Tahoe City every year, but this year, they got quite ...

TAHOE CITY, Calif. (KOVR-TV) - It's an incredible sea of white in Tahoe City. The Heller family went to bed in their cabin, but they woke up in a snow cave. Their house was completely covered in fresh ...

On Christmas morning, some will wake in a mountain cabin, peer out a window and then take in the setting: a carpet of velvet snow, towering conifers and perfect quiet. In minutes, you have a fire ...

SODA SPRINGS, Calif. — Chris Rivest’s father sent him from San Francisco to the family vacation cabin near the Sierra Nevada crest with a seemingly simple chore — clear it and the driveway of snow.

When I was in grad school, I rented an unbelievably tiny studio apartment in a small town. As if that wasn’t remote enough, I could easily escape to a lake house an hour away, and did so frequently.

Professor Noah Hughes covers weather in his earth science classes at Modesto Junior College. This winter, he has had an up-close view at his Sierra Nevada cabin. Snow has buried much of the first ...