Last Sunday and Monday, June 28-29 Duke and I hiked the 17 mile section of the Tahoe Rim Trail from Spooner Summit on Highway 50 to Tunnel Creek Road. The last three miles were off the trail down to the lake. The same road we took at the end of the Mount Rose to Tunnel Creek Road section. We did the hike it in two days and camped out seven miles from the beginning of the trail. Given how much rain we have had and the fact that we still saw some snow it was surprising to me that we only saw water once on the trail. It was at about 10 miles in. Here is a picture of Duke filtering water and refilling our water bottles.
Here are a couple more scenery pictures. If you would like to see all the pictures from the hike you can see them on Flickr here. We only have one more section to do to comnplete the Tahoe Rim Trail. It is the 32.5 Echo Lake to Barker Pass section through the Desolation Wilderness. I think we will do it as a four day back packing trip in August.
Author: marionvermazen
I am a traveler, hiker, avid reader, Sun alumnus, computer geek, Spanish and French language student, knitter and genealogist. I am retired after working for almost 30 years in the Computer Industry. I live in Reno, Nevada with my husband Duke.
Todd Jonz – Musician and Man of Many Interests – Episode 3 of the Marion Vermazen Podcast
Todd Jonz – Musician and Man of Many Interests – Episode 3 of the Marion Vermazen Podcast
My goal for this podcast is to have interesting conversations with interesting people and to have fun doing it. In this show I interview an old friend, Todd Jonz about his life in rural Vermont and Prince Edward Island, Canada. I think you will enjoy listening to our conversation.
Here are some links to some of the things we discussed
Castleton State College Music Ensembles
Todd's profile and picture on the Trombone Forum
The Book What Color is Your Parachute
News sites mentioned
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Tahoe Rim Trail – Barker Pass to Ward Creek Road
Yesterday Duke and I hiked the section of the Tahoe Rim Trail from Barker Pass to Ward Creek Road. I think it is one of the prettiest sections of the trail. The views were fantastic.
It was a total of 11.8 miles and though my feet hurt at the end it didn't seem as hard as last week so I must be getting in a little bit better shape. The hardest thing about the hike was that there were sections of the trail still covered with a lot of snow so that we couldn't always find the trail. We just headed in the right direction and eventually the trail would show up again. Walking over snow does slow us down so the hike took 6.5 hours.
If you would like to see all of my pictures from the hike they are available here.
I think next week we will hike a section on the west side of Lake Tahoe that is about 17 miles. We are planning to do it as a one night back pack.
Tahoe Rim Trail – Tahoe Meadows to Tunnel Creek Road
We hiked another part of the Tahoe Rim Trail yesterday. This time we hiked on the east side of the lake. Duke and I started at Tahoe Meadows on the Mount Rose Highway and hiked 9 miles south on the Tahoe Rim Trail to Tunnel Creek Road. Tunnel Creek Road is also called the Flume Trail and is very popular with mountain bikers. We hiked down three miles from the TRT to highway 28 which is on the shore of the shore of the lake. So we did 9 miles on the TRT and 3 miles down to where we parked the truck.
It was a beautiful day. It started out with completely blue sky but by the time we were finished thunder clouds were rolling in. The views from this part of the trail are fantastic.
Here is a list of all the parts of the trail we have done so far.
- Tahoe Meadows to Tunnel Creek Road – June 19, 2009 ( yesterday)
- Ward Canyon to Tahoe City – June 16, 2009
- Brockway to Tahoe City – July 3, 2008
- Kingsbury to Big Meadow - Aug 7, 2008
- Big Meadow to Echo Lake – Aug 14, 2008
- Mount Rose to Brockway - June 26, 2008
- Spooner Summit to Kingsbury Grade – June 21, 2008
Here are a few of the pictures from the hike yesterday. You can see all my pictures on Flickr here.
The only snow we saw was at Tahoe Meadows where we started the hike.
There were lots of wonderful views. This is the east shore of Lake Tahoe
On the Trail Again – Tahoe Rim Trail – Ward Canyon to Tahoe City
Last year Duke and I hiked several sections of the 165 mile long Tahoe Rim Trail. This year we plan to complete it. Our 2008 hikes were all very long hikes. Several of them were 20+ miles. What I learned from our hikes last year is that 20 miles is more than I want to hike in one day. I can do it but after about 12 miles it just isn't much fun. If you would like to read about the sections we did last year they are here.
The Tahoe Rim Trail web site has a list of how you can break the trail into 14 day hikes. Today Duke and I hiked the shortest segment, Ward Canyon to Tahoe City. It was an easy, 5 mile, two hour hike. It was great to be out on the trail again. Our next hike will be the Barker Pass to Ward Canyon segment which is south from where we were today. Looking that way it looks like there is still quite a bit of snow on the trail where it meets the Pacific Crest Trail but I bet we can do it next week.
If you would like to see my pictures of the hike they are on Flickr here.
