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Late September Weekend at Lake Tahoe

·Truckee, California·#hiking#boating#fall#lake tahoe#sierra nevada
Dense green pine forests frame a wide dark blue lake, surrounded by distant mountains under a partly cloudy sky.

Up at Tahoe for a late September weekend. From the road above the north shore the whole lake was out in front of us, mountains hazy on the far side, clouds building up over the water most of the morning.

The middle of the day went to Emerald Bay. We got out on the water and came around Fannette Island close enough to see the old stone tea house on its top. A storm-looking bank of cloud kept sliding over the ridge behind the bay but nothing came of it. One other boat idling near the island, otherwise the bay mostly to ourselves.

After that, the falls above the bay. I was half expecting them dry this late in the season, but there was still real water coming down the granite, spread out in threads across the rock face. Scrambled around the boulders at the bottom for a while, then followed the creek up to where it narrows and pours between the rocks. The cliffs above the road were the last thing we passed on the way out, sun already well down behind them.

A sunny landscape view of a large lake with mountains and dense pine forest, with houses on a hillside in the foreground.A lake with a rocky, forested island and small stone structure under a cloudy sky, with a person in a boat.A person on a motorboat in a lake by a forested point with a castle, under a cloudy sky.A stream flows over large rocks in a forested landscape with tall evergreen trees under a bright blue sky.A sunny view of a multi-tiered waterfall flowing over rocks down a mountainside with lush green trees.A multi-tiered waterfall cascades down a rocky, tree-covered mountain under a bright, partly cloudy sky.A multi-tiered waterfall cascades down a rocky mountainside surrounded by trees under a bright, sunny sky.Tall pine trees frame a view of a rocky cliff under a blue sky with white clouds.

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