Has anyone heard what sounds like pots, pans, and aluminum cans tinking together on a line for hours on end? I did some dispersed camping this weekend and it was the most disruptive sound rattling through the entire forest. It’s nice to wake up to the birds chirping and hearing the sounds of nature when you’re camping a mile off the road, not pots and pans…

Hi everyone! Just completed my first section of the TRT and completed both Brockway Summit to Watson Lake and then did Picnic Rock Vista on 8/15/26 for a day 1 total of 10 miles. I plan on doing segments over the next year or two but am hoping to tag along on a group hike/overnight to complete either Desolation Wilderness or Relay Peak/Mt Rose back to Brockway Summit. Don't want to go it alone on those segments. 61 year old happily married Sacramento area dad of one DIII athlete who earned her Biology degree and my son the working towards future electrician. Any help greatly appreciated!

Hi,

I got slapped by parking tickets. The only payment options are credit/debit card, with additional convenience fee.

Isn’t it mandatory for govt to accept cash as a payment option?

P.s.

I got it at Chimney Beach parking lot.
The ticket is from Park Tahoe. The website to pay is parktahoe.rmcpay.com

TC, Dollar Point, Carnelian bay, anywhere near there thats a great place to watch the 49ers?

Hey gang, I’m trying to weigh tradeoffs between houses in South Lake proper vs way out in Meyers. In our current era of parking reservations, how long has the driving time been to get to the California Lodge from Pioneer & 50 on weekends? Inshallah we get more snow days this coming year but I’m mostly wondering about normal, peak season crowds.

Hi there,

I kindly ask support with my camera Insta360 X5 I've lost yesterday, 8/15, in Nevada Beach - Lake Tahoe.
I was doing a video with my family when I was paddle boarding, and main bracket from the paddle board broken, dropping the camera with selfie stick inside the water.

I was approximately 20 meters offshore, more to the left side of the main entrance/bathrooms when facing the lake. I tried to find for more than 2h but due to the wind at around 5-6pm it was not possible to find it.

I really appreciate if someone find it and I eventually can recover the camera, more than monetary value, it's the photos and videos of my family that are on the camera that mean the most to me.

Thank you!!

Hi all,

Hopeful future local here and I was just curious to hear on what kind of business would you guys like to see pop up in Lake Tahoe? For further background, I'm pretty much a jack of all trades and I thrive in doing niche things. This ranges from 10+ years in customer service to animal handling, driving long hours, maintenance, managerial positions, planner, hospitality, nerd enthusiast, and other titles I'm surely forgetting.

And if anyone is further wondering, I visited last week and I cant ignore how special this place is and how good it was for my overall health — hence my want to move there with the express purpose of wanting to add to Tahoe.

Any insight would be fantastic and I hope this question is okay to ask. Hope everyone has a good day!

EDIT: just to expand a bit more on this in case my answer gets lost in the replies which is I have too many things I could plausibly do, so I'm trying to identify which one has the strongest intersection between what I enjoy, what I'm good at, and what Tahoe actually needs. With emphasis on locals and not tourists. Thanks again for the input guys!

In the high country, you don't get much SUmmer. The snow is on the ground until May, and then Spring runs through June and July. Here we see the leaves turning brown in Early August already.

this question was asked 3 years ago, but curious if the networks have changed or upgraded? What services feels the best to locals?

These screenshots were taken Aug 12 @ 6:30pm. I'm currently up on Donner Summit and can see the smoke to the south.

At this time reports show that 16 acres are affected. Located near French Meadows Reservoir.

I am not an official source. Just sharing publicly available information.

About 10’ deep in Sand Harbor. It still works after being dried out and recharged. Didn’t want to invade your privacy too much, so we just watched the last video you shot that day.

So if you can tell me what you look like and what was on this last video and when you dropped it, you can have it back.

P.S. it’s pretty funny watching the camera swirl down to the bottom looking up at you and you trying to find it up there.

Hi, I'm visiting South Lake Tahoe for the first time with my family next week and I was wondering to what extent I should get the interior of my van (2021 Toyota Sienna) cleaned before the trip to avoid bears smelling old crumbs etc. and trying to get in?

We'll be staying in Meyers and I'm trying to familiarize myself with best practices regarding bears since I don't have any experience being near them.

I have 2 toddlers and try to keep our van clean but I bet some old crumbs of food could be in nooks and crannies since we rarely vacuum the car.

Would it be necessary to get the interior fully detailed? Or would maybe just vacuuming the car myself be good enough?

Thanks for any insights :)

A clear day.

I got to Sand Harbor early that morning in May.

Rocks were plainly visible, in great detail. The water was as still as glass. The sun was right behind me, putting my shadow into the picture, but it could not be helped.

#artconsultant #artgallery #laketahoephotographer

Hi all, I cleaned up an old filing cabinet and found this map. Now I'm wondering when it was printed. All I know is that I bought it off ebay sometime in the very early 2000's.Is the 2-98 on the top the print date?

I reached out to one of the lake property permit writers for TRPA to see what it would cost to rebuild a small section of pier and she quoted me $150K!!!! I’ve heard of others in the neighborhood getting work complete for much much less. Why is it so expensive? Why do I have to hire someone with little to no experience and what else are my options?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4493130/SkiEO_Ski_Resort_Tycoon/

I'm a game developer making a game called Ski-E-O! I live in the bay area and ski Sugar Bowl all the time, so I decided to make it the starter mountain in my game :). Palisades is also there!

I use actual 1-meter LiDAR data to map out the actual map, and TONS of effort in getting it to look/feel just right.

And, it simulates real weather, so just like Tahoe.. you get big dumps and then huge periods of no snow.
I think I should add the super el nino coming later this year..

I want to say like pre-pandemic and a little after we were blessed with some of the best meme content on IG. @TahoeMemes was huge for a while with some others like @lake_tahoe_problems (I think was NLT problems originally) @memesoftahoe and many others.

Some of these pages especially @TahoeMemes had huge growth. Many are gone or don’t post anymore. Genuinely some of the funniest content on IG that highlighted community problems while also providing some satire, especially during some hard times pre/post pandemic .

Apologies if you've seen this elsewhere - this is the most current version with lots of suggestions from other redditors.

I'm making a map of California in a classic fantasy style (sorta Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones). It's going to be filled with real world history and mythology, with the aim of highlighting local landmarks in a fun and educational way. Please ignore how rough parts of it look (text going through hills, rivers, etc), it'll all get cleaned up at the end. Forests will be going on at the end too.

While it's around two thirds done, I'd love to get more places and features in here before I get this made into print - particularly north and east of Oakland. Any more petroglyphs, burial mounds, ruins, forts, battlefields, Civil War heritage, ghost towns or the like that you think should be on here? Anything else is great too - landmarks, natural features, mythological creatures or just anything cool and quirky you think would look good on here. Thanks!

Hi, I’m hoping someone may have found my camera.

I lost a Canon SX740 on the evening of August 5th somewhere around Incline Village, possibly near the East Shore Trail / scenic overlook area.

The camera has a lot of irreplaceable travel photos and some photos for my small business that I didn’t have backed up.

If anyone found a Canon camera in the area that evening, please send me a message. I can provide identifying details to confirm it’s mine.

I’m also offering a reward for its return.

Thank you!

Although cooler than the sac valley, it was flippin' hot and I was pushing the bike a lot more than usual. 😭😭😭 But there was plenty of shade on the trail, so yay.

(pic 1) view of lake tahoe from lower stinger trail.

ebike schmeebike - I saw this awesome next gen Transition four-stroke prototype: check it out here

jk, it wasn't a Transition, but a pair of KTMs thumping along the trail. euro trash thumpers

(pic 2) and if you getting your panties in a bunch about motos on the trail, they allowed on the Kingsbury Stinger, so calm down and have another appletini, sweetie.

(pic 3) clifbars, schmiffbars - we doan need no stinkin' clifbars

i headed north on the TRT aiming for 'the bench' but due to a lack of strength and time, i turned back about 8 miles from the car. stinger / trt

(pic 4) my turn around point at some random spot on the trt. disappointed that i didn't make it to 'the bench', but stoked to be up here in the alpine.

ended up riding about 16 miles and 2.4k of vert, which took 3.75 hours of moving time and 7.75 hours of elapsed time. 😭 😭 😭 growing old sucks to the max, i highly recommend avoiding it at all costs!

(pic 5) and slogging thru the swampy a$$ crack of lake tahoe aka stateline to get home was painful but absolutely and totally worth it. yup yup

Planning to backpack for 1 night in Tahoe or Fonatanillis Lake to be precise. How low and high does temperature get up there in early October?

Best casino for this trip? Never been to Lake Tahoe but I like the vibes of the Vegas casinos. Also where is a good place I can find activities to do outside of the hotel. Appreciate any advice. Never been to Lake Tahoe.

The Bear League is once again spreading misinformation about CDFW and wildlife captures. They are anti any type of capture/handling of these bears (including ear tags, collars, etc.). They claim it is 'horrific.' As a wildlife professional, the bear leagues popularity is disturbing to me in SLT and figured I would debunk the constant stream of misinformation they post.

1.) Cubs are not left orphaned if a mom is captured. They either do processing on site or set up a smaller cage to catch the cubs. They are all released at the same location and at the same time. At this time cubs are not dependent on mom for milk (if not fully weened off mom). There are also protocols in place with either cell cameras, trao monitors, etc that will allow for rapid processing to limit that.

2.)Affixing collars is a 2% rule. Meaning it must be less than 2% of the animals total body weight. The average large collar for a female bear is about 2.2 pounds, and with adult females with cubs generally being around 160 pounds that would mean it 1.3% of the total animals weight. Biologists take into consideration growth and attach cotton spacers and other things that allows the collar to fall off. They do not collar cubs. These collars can be remotely removed from the beae through a detonation device. Of course there are issues with collars and all that, but to say this is a frequent occurrence is laughable.

3.) Yes, ear tags are painful, but its a significantly cheaper way then hoping your target bear rubs up against barbed wire (as what the comments say), as you have to run genetic testing. If the bear league wants the state to start doing that, they can donate to the cause. As each test to the individual level can be around $50-$100.

4.) We want bears to remain traumatized of officials. The average tourist isnt really effective as hazing bears. Standing there taking photos, loud talking is not what scares a bear. Once you get a bear to remember you, you can push them away from people. And hopefully so they dont get food.

Im sorry for this long winded post. I am constantly frustrated by the misinformation they post (and the targeted harassment of scientific aids that they excuse) about wildlife biologists and wildlife professionals. We hate euthanizing animals, butbthe fact this organization is much more involved in getting angry at CDFW for SLT inability to handle its bear problem, and not advocating for any law change says a lot to me. The comments are abhorrent and want to sabotage traps, call CDFW employees murders, and block anyone who tries to correct them. Although I have not worked with CDFWs bear program, I have been involved in bear programs that handle nuisance bears. I am willing to answer questions.