Chris and I went up to Tahoe last weekend for a quick get away. It seems like we get a lot of juice for life here if we get out of town every 6 weeks or so. We hadn't made a trip away together since going to Shasta and the Finlandia Motel in October. So, we were over due. There's something that seems uncommonly like home for us as we drive into South Lake Tahoe. Some of our dearest friends are there and visiting SLT has been one of the only consistent parts of our life in California for the last decade of living in Santa Barbara, San Diego, and now San Francisco.
It's been over a year since we've been snowshoeing together so this was a really sweet time. We walked down to Vikingsholm (pictured) and watched the dark clouds descend as the storm first arrived. At first we could see across the lake and as we sat there the clouds swallowed the mountain peaks, the casinos, and the little island out in emerald bay. Later the road was closed so that was a good first choice. I've always wanted to see ice climbers on Eagle Falls, but no luck this time. The ice was not in. Later we went for an easy walk to Pope Beach and made a similar walk on Sunday in 18 inches of new snow.
Here are a couple shots. The full album is here:
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| tahoe snowstorm feb 08 |
