The Road Genealogist: Lake Tahoe

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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Lake Tahoe & Mount Rose

Martis Creek COE Campground

    Mt Rose photos added Tuesday 17 Jul.
    After visiting Genoa earlier in the day on 8 July I drove up NV207 to Zephyr Cove and Nevada Beach, where I luckily got the last spot in the USFS campground since someone left a day early.
    After walking part-way to the beach from the campground I returned to my camper for a hat since the wind was beginning to pick up. As a result, this 1st photo is slighltly after sunset.

I turned and took this shot down the SE shore of Lake Tahoe at or near Zephyr Cove.

Panning right, this view is toward the California town or city of South Lake Tahoe as well as the Sierra Nevada Range to the south.

Panning right there are still a few rays of sunlight on the Sierras.

Panning farther right, it appears this couple is looking at their iPhone or digital camera; prior to that they were trying to convince a Canadian Goose, a gander, to "take a hike," but the goose bowed his neck and stood his ground.

Panning right I returned to the spot where the sun has just set. There were a few small clouds just above where the sun had been, but they're barely visible.

Panning right yet again, the Nevada (or east) shore of Tahoe appears.

Another unamed wildflower which, if memory serves, is in Sierra Nevada Natural History by Storer and Usinger. [Incidentally, two previously unidentified photos taken while driving through Oregon and Central Nevada were on a wall poster in the Truckee Library next to the stairwell for the iron circular stairs; they were, in Oregon, Creeping Phlox, and in Nevada, a Prickly Poppy.]

From NV431, the Incline Village to Mt Rose to Reno road.

Panning right the huge size of Lake Tahoe doesn't quite fit in this photo.

Likely Dollar Point rather than Stateline Point.

Dollar Point on Dwellable

A closeup of the golf courses in Kings Beach and/or Brockaway, CA, as well as one high-rise hotel.

[Click once to enlarge; press ESC to return here.]
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Slide Mountain's antennas as seen from the Mt Rose USFS Campground.

Mt Rose Summit (elev: 8800') on NV431 from Incline Village to Reno.

A view to the NW from Mt Rose Summit's large parking lot.

Mount Rose (10,778'). While not the highest peak in Nevada, it does dominate the Northern Tahoe Region.

A photo looking toward Reno from the Mt Rose Road.

Another look toward a closer Reno.
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Links:

Wikipedia article on Lake Tahoe
Great photos in Climbers' Guide to Mt Rose

Friday, October 21, 2011

Lake Tahoe - Part I

Sonora, CA

    On 16 October I left the Martis Lake Campground SW of Truckee, in part because it was closing for the season later that day, but principally to spend two days in the Tahoe Basin. As I headed down CA267 I finally got the nerve to park and take the photo you see at the right. [Apparently there are no Vista Points since it would require cutting down more than a few trees.]

    After reaching the edge of Tahoe at Kings Beach, I decided I didn't want to pay $8 just to park briefly and take a few photos. I drove east on CA28, which became NV28 once I crossed the stateline. There were the usual ubiquitous casinos and, since the area just past the casinos was on a hill, I turned around and drove back into The Golden State [or Brass State, given its financial health]. Brockway has a golf course built c1925 which claims to be the home of the first Crosby [Golf Tournament; guess it became a Clambake when Bing moved it to Monterey County].
    The photo just above was taken looking NE from a subdivision on Dollar Point.

Walked down Observation Point Road and took another shot of the Nevada shore across the blue lake, which is 1646' deep at an elevation of 6229'. [Crater Lake in Oregon, which is c1900' deep, seems much bluer -- perhaps because there has been no development along its shore.]