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Late August Camp at Webber Lake

·Sierra County, California·#summer#tahoe#sierra nevada#camping#overlanding
View from inside a tent showing a mesh skylight and windows revealing blue sky and tall trees.

Woke up in the rooftop tent with pine tops filling the mesh overhead — camped up at Webber Lake in Sierra County, close enough to Tahoe that everyone drives past this on their way to the bigger water. Coffee first: kettle on the Coleman, Chemex on the trailer's fold-down galley, the yellow enamel mug. The whole kitchen unpacks out of one cabinet and mornings are the reason it exists.

Strung the hammock between two lodgepoles at the edge of the meadow behind camp and lost a chunk of the morning there.

Later walked over to the old hotel — boarded-up windows, the whole building propped on rounds of logs, clearly mid-restoration — and the cluster of red-painted sheds running down toward the shore, a Do Not Enter sign on the smallest one. Past the buildings the lake opened up, wind chop and glare clear across to the treed ridges, a single small boat tied at a dock off the beach. Tahoe is the deep famous one, sitting at 6,225 feet with its clarity readings and its crowds; here there was nobody else on the sand at all. Walked the shoreline until the wind picked up, then back to camp.

An outdoor kitchen setup shows a Chemex coffee maker, ground coffee, a yellow mug, and internal shelves.A green Jeep Wrangler with a winch and light bar is parked on a gravel road in a pine forest, with a silver ladder in the foreground.An orange hammock hangs between a large tree and a smaller tree in a bright forest under a clear blue sky.A blue rooftop tent on a trailer with an open kitchen, ladder, and chairs in a sunny forest setting.Old wooden buildings line a dirt path leading to a red truck by a blue lake under a clear sky.An old wooden building with a metal roof stands in a grassy field surrounded by tall evergreen trees under a blue sky.A sparkling lake with a small boat docked at a pier, bordered by a forest and hills under a clear blue sky.A wide lake with small ripples reflects the bright blue sky, bordered by densely forested hills in the distance.

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