Thursday 19 June 2014

Lake Tahoe: Lake Tahoe Dam

The vastness of Lake Tahoe and its beautiful deep, clear blue water make it a very lovely place to be.

We popped into Tahoe City to provision and walked some of the Lakeside Trail and saw some of the different aspects to the lake.


To quote Mark Twain:
 “The water is clearer than the air, and the air is the air that angels breathe.” 


Lake Tahoe beach.
The only outlet from the lake is the Truckee River and the 1909 dam on the Truckee is a gem. It still has a gatekeeper managing the flow of the top 6 feet of Lake Tahoe for downstream use. With the drought here in California the flow is at rim, so just the natural overflow.


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