Hike at Big Meadow

Up highway 89 to the south, the Tahoe Rim Trail crosses the road. We started a hike there, went through Big Meadow and then to Dardanelle Lake. It’s a lovely little granite enclosed lake. BPC Wilderness Trip Cache is located here, but we couldn’t find it. The coords don’t match the hint, but more importantly, […]

Off to Tahoe via Highway 88

With not much going on at work we headed for Lake Tahoe for three days. We always enjoy a hike at Wood’s Lake (near the summit of Carson Pass) so we headed up highway 88. We were just a couple of weeks early for what looks to be a fabulous wildflower display. Lake Winnemucca still […]

Pleasanton on a HOT day

I had the pickup worked on yesterday, and the intermittent misfire was fixed by replacing a faulty spark plug. So… I ventured out to Pleasanton.

It was also my first day of using the routing functions with the Garmin 60csx. First up was IHT Chugs into Pleasanton (1:00 PM), which was just off Valley and […]