Lake Tahoe, Day 1

This is going off of foggy memory as it has now been a couple of weeks. I'll also try to be more brief:) The ride day was 26 June and was riding day 5 out of the first 7 days.

I made camp at a campground just south of Tahoe City on the Eastern Shore. I took the next day off and rode around town and found the start of the trailhead as well as the end, just to make sure. Tahoe city seemed like a cool place. Not as run down as Kings Beach looked.

So, the next morning, I got up and after breakfast, was on the bike pedaling out of the campground. About 2 or 3 miles to the trailhead and I hit the trail with a water crossing to start it off. I climbed up to Standford rock up 8500 feet or so after starting near the lake at about 6200 feet. Saw my first snow of the trip up around 7500 feet, and then a massive snow drift up at Stanford rock. Had a couple of nice spots for views, but with the wildfires, I couldn't see a whole lot.

From Stanford Rock, I hit the Tahoe Rim trail. Mostly down towards the meadows and into town (Tahoe City). It was fun. And a very well built trail. Nearly all, if not all water drainage crossings were heavily armored with rock...and thus very fun to ride. Saw a nice waterfall on the way down too. In this photo you can see a bit of the trail that goes by the waterfall.

The rest of the trail was lots of fun too. I think I only did 2700 feet of climbing and 21 miles. Got into town, grabbed a sandwich and pedaled back to camp. Dropped off most of the gear and headed back across the street to take a dip in Lake Tahoe...it was nice. Camped again that night and then headed around the other way of the lake to meet up with friends in South Lake Tahoe.