Lake Tahoe

Lake Tahoe is a large freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. It is 6,225 feet above sea level and straddles the border of California and Nevada. The beautiful blue lake is the largest alpine lake in North America and largest freshwater lake after the five Great Lakes. To say the scenery is break-taking is an understatement.

Largest alpine lake in US

Barbara J. and I 

I have been to Lake Tahoe three times, though not since 2001. All my visits were in conjunction with the American Sheep Industry Association (ASI) Convention in Reno, Nevada. All January visits. One visit was with my friend Barbara J. (1994). One was by myself (1998) and one was with my mom (2001). When Barbara and I visited, we went to San Francisco afterwards. Same with my mom. In fact, we combined it with a trip to visit my Aunt Ginny (RIP 2025) in Arizona. When I went on my own, I went snowmobiling. Wow, was that fun. So fast. I fell off the snowmobile multiple times. 

Fun on a snowmobile

Dashing through the woods

Stopping for picture-taking

Alpine scenery

The biggest ski resort in the Lake Tahoe area is Palisades Tahoe. When I was there in 1998, it was called Squaw Valley.  In 2021, the name was changed due to its divisiveness. The ski resort hosted the 1960 Winter Olympics. I took a ski lift to the top. No skis. I don't ski. Then or now.

Squaw Valley (now Palisades Tahoe) 

Ski run

For some reason I can't find any pictures of when Mom and I visited Lake Tahoe. There are pictures of the rest of the trip. I recall we took a sleigh ride through the snow. We shared the sleigh with a scout for the  Washington Redskins (and his wife). We drove to San Francisco afterwards. We spent a day in Monterey before taking a plane to Phoenix.