Sierra Canyon Hiking Group Hike in the Tahoe-Donner Ski Area

Duke and I went hiking again with the Sierra Canyon Hiking group again on Monday. Sierra Canyon is the 55 and over community that we live in so all the hikers are 55 or older. Monday we hiked around the Tahoe-Donner Ski area and Euer Valley Cross-country ski Area. We were just north of Interstate 80 overlooking Donner pass. We hiked about 5 miles and had great panoramic views of the Pacific Crest.

Here are a few pictures. You can click on them to see them full size

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Here is the Flickr link for all of my pictures of this hike.

Directions: to Tahoe-Donner

I80 west to Truckee
Exit 184 (Donner State Park/Donner Pass Rd)
Turn Right
0.4 miles turn left at light on Northwoods Blvd
1.3 miles to blinking light
Turn left on to Northwoods Rd
0.7 miles turn left on Skislope Rd
4.2 miles to Glacier Way
Glacier Way Trailhead #24 on left
Park in trailhead parking lot.

Lots to do

One of the advantages of living in a place that people go on vacation is that there are lots and lots of things to do. Maybe this is true anywhere you go. There were certainly lots of things to do when Duke and I were in Manchester, Iowa on vacation a month ago. In just a week we did Hooverfest, two ice cream socials, the Sweet Corn festival, First Friday at Five (live music, beer and food) and spent a day at the Amana Colonies.

Anyway, there is also lots to do in the Reno area. Yesterday we went to the Best in the West Nugget Rib Cook-Off in down town Sparks. The food was so good that I wished for a bigger stomach.

On Wednesday I met my good friend Linda for lunch in Truckee which is 45 minutes east of here. We hadn’t seen each other in almost three months. It was SO good to see her. In the Truckee chamber of Commerce building I picked up brochures about everything from horse back riding to hiking to wine tasting to the Sunset Idea house to rafting and bicycling. Linda and I had a great time browsing the shops but we did agree that moving and having too much stuff does put a damper on one’s desire to buy things!

Sierra Canyon Hiking Group – Lake Tahoe Hike

One of my retirement goals is to hike. Hiking is something I have always enjoyed hiking and I want to hike often in a wide variety of places. Sierra Canyon, the Del Webb over 55 community that we live in has a very active hiking group that hikes every Monday and Thursday. The hikes are usually 5-7 miles. Monday are easier and shorter than the hikes on Thursdays.

Last Monday Duke and I did our first hike with the group. We hiked along the shore of Lake Tahoe’s Emerald Bay from D.L. Bliss State Park to Vikingsholm. Here is a picture of the group getting ready to leave the parking lot. The drivers took the cars down to the end of the route and then all came back in one car.

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Lake Tahoe is one of the most beautiful places on earth. The walk along the lake was gorgeous.

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The Vikinsholm is a stone home built iTahoehike8272007_032n authentic Norwegian style back in the late 1920’s.

From Vikinsholm we hiked  to Eagle Falls and then about a mile back up to the parking area road. On the way home we stopped for beer and snacks at Sunnyside Restaurant. We sat on the deck overlooking the lake. It was great group of people and a lot of fun. The total hike was about 5.5 miles and quite easy.

Here is the Flickr link of all the pictures from the hike.

Inspiration

It took all my energy and will power several year ago to hike Mount Whitney. Hiking at 14,000 ft is no fun and in fact is incredibly hard. So if you want an inspirational story you should read this post from Tom Mangan’s Bay Area (California) Hiking Blog. I can’t even imagine what it took for Bob Coomber AKA 4WheelBob to take a wheel chair up 14,000 ft plus White Mountain. It is impressive and inspiring. Wow!