Tahoe - March 8-11, 2019

Tahoe, March 8-11, 2019

The chance to get back to pretending to be an alpeener eventually presented itself when I had a free weekend that coincided with okay weather in the Tahoe area. I of course planned far too ambitiously. There are several hikes I'd like to do that are easily accessed along I-80. Despite the good weather for the weekend, the Donner Summit Sno-Park wasn't plowed (I found out later it stayed unplowed due to a number of buried vehicles), and other access points in the vicinity seemed to be similarly unavailable. I wasn't terribly excited to do a lot of driving on unknown roads in the dark, so, for the first time in my life, I left without an itinerary. I'd spent a few minutes on Thursday writing out a tentative trip schedule, but when I found that Donner parking was inaccessible, I just gave up and decided I couldn't possibly find nothing to do in an area surrounded by snowy peaks.

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