June Tahoe Hike Plan

[Tom Hansen]

The operative word for this hike is "easy".  After a night out drinking margaritas and shaking your groove thing at the Tahoe Wabo, we figured it best to take it easy on you guys for the Saturday hike.  So this is an optional 4 mile or 8 mile hike.  If your hangover is too much for 8, we can plant a car or two at the end of the trail and keep it short for all you party animals.  For those of you needing a full workout, you can make a U turn and head back to the start point.  It's a pretty flat trail, popular, so shouldn't be too difficult. There are also a few other shorter add-on trails in the area if you're feeling really ambitious. I recommend we leave for the trailhead around 9 am, looks to be about a 30 minute drive from the cottages. 

 

Motel Info: Doc's Cottages 775-588-2264.  Book your room fast!  If there are no rooms left there, the Capri and the Ambassador are right across the street, or there is always Harvey's right next door.

 

Doc's has a nice area for a BBQ after the hike, so we're gonna throw some meat on the grill and have ourselves a nice dinner/cocktail party Saturday night. Plus that night (Saturday)  Dianna Krall is playing at Harvey's Outdoor Theater at 8 pm, and from our patio we can listen to the whole thing free of charge.

 

As always, please pass this on to all "e" challenged hikers!  Hope to see  you all there!!! 

 

Ps. don't forget to post on the blog too!

 

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 Here's the hike:

 

We'll park at Vikingsholm and hike to Emerald Point and back (optional return).  Looks like there is a charge for parking at Vikingsholm, so we should pack into as few cars as possible. 

Lake Tahoe trail casts a spell

Enchanting views – like this one from Rubicon Point – and a fairytale castle (scroll down) are par for the course along this lakeside hike. Photo by Paul Bousquet

In the 1880s, a Sacramento newsman compared Lake Tahoe's sapphire depths to bluing solution, so astonishing was the color. Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) said Lake Tahoe's air was pure enough for angels. Clear sky and water still startle the senses here, especially when you spend the day close to shore on the 6 1/2-mile Rubicon Trail. The footpath connects rocky pointsand sandy coves along an untamed shoreline that once intimidated mountain men. Today, the paths have been cleared and the steeper sections shored up. The most popular trailheads are at D.L. Bliss State Park and Emerald Bay State Park. It's 4 1/2 miles between those points; also, you can take the new 2-mile extension past Vikingsholm.

The Bliss trailhead approach is particularly lovely. Its crushed-granite path leads, after about 1/8 mile, to Rubicon Point, where the trail turns south. About 1/5 mile past Rubicon Point, you'll reach a place where dramatic granite cliffs descend 600 feet to a watery mosaic of blues – they continue another 1,400 feet below water.

A few steps around the corner is a strange crowd of natural rock figures. Use your imagination to identify local favorites such as Frog Rock, Sleeping Lady, Gladiator, and Old King Cole. Across a ravine behind the formations is an osprey nest that's been there for years. A separate trail departs here for the remains of a small wood lighthouse.

About 1/2 mile farther south, the trail leaves sunny terrain for cooler slopes shaded by sugar and Jeffrey pines, Douglas fir, and incense cedar trees. You'll pass another rocky view point before switchbacking downhill to the sandy coves of Emerald Point. Views encompass glacier-carved mountain peaks and the lumpy profile of Fannette Island – legends of ghosts and turn-of-the-century tea parties here enthrall visitors.

Larry Prosor

Continuing around the bay, you'll come to Vikingsholm, a 38-room mansion built in 1929 for a woman who wanted to replicate the stonework, turrets, and sod roofing of medieval Scandinavian architecture.

Save time for a 30-minute guided tour – they're available between 10 and 4 every half hour daily through the end of September.

– Laura Read

 

 

[marykhos...@yahoo.com]

Will be a blast!!! I'm booked and I will bring the black n Decker (hehehe)

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Subject: June Tahoe Hike Plan

[Mary K]

Hey All, some of you have emailed me requesting info on the June Hike.
Below is the main detail of the Hike. It will be great fun and there
are about 15 going so far. I wanted to get another head count and also
Tom is the hike guide this time around I am not sure where would be a
good place to meet or the time etc.

Tom, can you provide the group with a start time on Sat and also the
location you feel would be best to meet to start the hike. Also, if
the group can reply to our hikeing blog that would be great so I can
get a count and also see who is missing from the site that needs to be
informed...

Will be a nice hike!

Mary

> *Lake Tahoe trail casts a spell*
>   *
> **Enchanting views – like this one from Rubicon Point – and a fairytale
> castle (scroll down) are par for the course along this lakeside hike. *Photo
> by Paul Bousquet*
>
> **I*n the 1880s, a Sacramento newsman compared Lake Tahoe's sapphire depths

> *– Laura Read*

[Tom Hansen]

Hey everybody, happy Sunday!  Only two weeks till our Tahoe Hike on June 18.  On the day of the hike, we'll be meeting at the McDonald's just south of the intersection of highways 50 and 89.  Be there at 830 and chow down those egg McMuffins.  There is a Starbucks across the street if you need your fix. There is also a Raley's near by for any other needs.  From there, it's only a few minutes drive to the trailhead at Emerald Bay.  Not sure of parking situation, so we should ride share as much as possible.

 

McDonald's is at:

 

1035 Emerald Bay Road
South Lake Tahoe, CA 96150-6210

 

BTW, don't forget we're doing a little BBQ at Doc's Cottages after the hike. Bring a dish and whatever you want to throw on the grill.  I'll bring the briquettes and get the grill going. We can stop at Raley's on the way back to pick up any BBQ provisions we need.   

 

Not sure who all is going, so please pass info on to those who haven't sign up on the crazy-sacto-...@googlegroups.com webpage.

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[marykhos...@yahoo.com]

Woo hoooo!!! I'm there!

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Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 15:15:51 -0700

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Subject: Re: June Tahoe Hike Plan

[Mary K]

Hey Everyone... hike this sat... see message from Tom below... its
going to be a blast... bbq to follow... let us know who is coming so
we have an idea of who we need to look for at MC D's

mary

On Jun 5, 3:15 pm, Tom Hansen <th6...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey everybody, happy Sunday!  Only two weeks till our Tahoe Hike on June
> 18.  On the day of the hike, we'll be meeting at the McDonald's just south
> of the intersection of highways 50 and 89.  Be there at 830 and chow down
> those egg McMuffins.  There is a Starbucks across the street if you need
> your fix. There is also a Raley's near by for any other needs.  From there,
> it's only a few minutes drive to the trailhead at Emerald Bay.  Not sure of
> parking situation, so we should ride share as much as possible.
>
> McDonald's is at:
>
> 1035 Emerald Bay Road
> South Lake Tahoe, CA 96150-6210
>
> BTW, don't forget we're doing a little BBQ at Doc's Cottages after the
> hike. Bring a dish and whatever you want to throw on the grill.  I'll bring
> the briquettes and get the grill going. We can stop at Raley's on the
> way back to pick up any BBQ provisions we need.
>
> Not sure who all is going, so please pass info on to those who haven't sign
> up on the crazy-sacto-...@googlegroups.com webpage.
>
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[Tom Hansen]

might want to bring a fold up chair or two for the BBQ Saturday night!  See you all there!