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Clear Skies and a Hike Above Tahoe

·Placer County, California·#hiking#summer#nature#tahoe#landscape-photography
A wide blue lake nestled between tree-covered mountains under a clear sky, with green bushes in the foreground.

Two stops today, both within an easy drive of home. First a walk along one of the granite-rimmed reservoirs out west of town — water high and dark blue, the dam just visible across the far arm, manzanita crowding the trail down to the shore. Not a cloud anywhere all morning.

Then back east for the main event, the climb up from the north shore toward the rock outcrops that look down over the lake. From the top you could see the whole west shore and the ranges behind the south end, still holding streaks of snow at the end of June. Below us the bay was busy — boats leaving little white lines everywhere, the moored ones clustered near shore like seeds. Ate at the rocks, then back down through the firs the way we came.

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