Tahoe Meadows to Chickadee Ridge
One of the wonderful things about living in Reno is that there are great opportunities nearby to hike in the summer and go snow shoeing in the winter. Last Thursday I went for my first snowshoeing outing of the winter. My friend Linda had only been on snow shoes once before and agreed to go along on what I told her would be an easy hike. We snowshoed from Tahoe Meadows to Chickadee Ridge. It was an absolutely beautiful day. The sun reflecting off the snow reminded us of the glitter our friend Pat sometimes uses.
The only thing was that the hike turned out to be a much more difficult than I remembered. It didn’t help that we started just below the top of the Mount Rose Highway at about 8,550 feet altitude or that by the time we got to Chickadee Ridge where we could see Lake Tahoe we were at almost 9000 feet. We still had a wonderful time and Linda was a great sport even when I am sure she wasn’t quite sure what I had gotten her into.
We stopped for hot chocolate and snacks on the ridge overlooking Lake Tahoe
Here is the view from the ridge.
Here is the GPS plot of our route. I guess it was a bit steep!
If you would like to see all of my pictures from our trip they are available on Flickr here.
Donner Lake
In spite of our misadventures last week Linda and her husband Ray agreed to go snowshoeing again today. We snowshoed along the shore of Donner Lake in Donner Memorial State Park. It is a wonderful place to snowshoe. It is scenic and right off interstate 80 just west of Truckee. Our route was out and back and was a total of 2.3 miles.
It was overcast today and we even had a bit of wind and snow falling but it was a lot easier than last week. and we had a lot of fun.
If you would like to see all my pictures form today’s hike they are available on Flickr here.
