The first day: Big Meadow Trail to Round Lake
The trail to Big Meadow was such a tedious climb. There were mosquitoes. It was warm. The elevation made it hard to catch your breath and we were climbing and climbing and climbing. Imagine my frame of mind. Kind of grumpy. Feeling tired. Really not loving this trail when we turn a corner and get to this:
It was awesome. As I found out last year, when mountain biking in Tahoe, if the ride is bad wait ten minutes because it's just about to get really good.
Past the meadow was more riding, more climbing, more mosquitoes. Starting to feel grumpy and then...
Oh my gosh!
No way!
SNOW!!!!
How cool is that! Mountain biking in the snow.
After the snow there was more climbing, and more mosquitoes. My legs were so tired and I really wanted to head back, but we decided that we should at least make Round Lake our turn around point. So more riding. And just when I was thinking this was the worst trail ever, we head downhill and end up here...
Round Lake. Our very own crystal blue lake, surrounded by mountains and trees in the middle of a Tahoe forest with not another person in sight. Beautiful, serene, peaceful. We stayed there for quite awhile.
It was one of my most favorite moments of the whole trip.
What goes up must finally come down. All the climbing at the beginning of the trail finally paid off.
One hour to ride up, 20 minutes to get back down.
First trail on the first day at Tahoe is done!
2 comments:
Looks like an amazing time. :)
did you go skinny dipping?
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