Day hike to Shealor Lake

July 15, 2011, 10:27 pm

Shealor Lake

On our way home from Lake Tahoe, we drove on Highway 88 with plans to stop at Wood’s Lake and hike up to Winnemucca Lake. Unfortunately, we couldn’t even get to the trailhead at Wood’s Lake because of snow, so we drove down past Silver Lake to the trailhead for Shealor Lake, a […]

July 15th, 2011 | Category: Outdoors | Leave a comment

Attempted hike to Susie Lake

July 13, 2011, 10:12 pm

Upper Glen Alpine Falls

The trailhead for Susie Lake is the Glen Alpine Springs trail, at the bottom end of Fallen Leaf Lake. Glen Alpine Springs is an interesting historical resort that is being preserved. The soda springs were especially interesting because with all the extra snow melt water around, we could see gas escaping […]

July 13th, 2011 | Category: Outdoors | 2 comments

Tahoe, 2011

July 11, 2011, 10:40 pm

To satisfy my craving for experiencing the eastern Sierra, we headed up to the Lake Tahoe area. I had wanted to go to Mammoth, but all of the hikes we were interested in were still under feet of snow. I started checking for places to stay (motels, condos, etc) and ran across a last minute […]

July 11th, 2011 | Category: Outdoors | Leave a comment
 
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