Alright, so I figure I go up almost every weekend, I should have some good pictures to show for it, right? Well, here's why I go there all the time...

This is Donner Lake, near Lake Tahoe. I drove around it yesterday...

http://tavallai.com/stuff/tahoe/donner_lake.jpg

If the name sounds familiar, it's because it's named after the Donner Party, who ate each other. Now there's a nice big Interstate highway and a railroad (visible in the middle of this picture) to make winter passage easier.. Or backcountry snowboarding - which explains the footprints in the foreground.

http://tavallai.com/stuff/tahoe/donner_pass.jpg

This is the top of the Lakeview chair at Alpine Meadows... makes you wanna ignore the signs, doesn't it?

http://tavallai.com/stuff/tahoe/lakeview2.jpg

And this is the unobstructed view of Lake Tahoe - 2nd deepest lake in America, w/ 39 trillion gallons of water - enough to cover California in 14" of water if it were spilled out!

http://tavallai.com/stuff/tahoe/lakeview.jpg

cool fact about the trillions of gallons thing. this kind of shit definitely comes up in jeopardy!

I said it in the chat room and I'll say it here: stunning!! :cheers:

Next pics dude! I had forgotten how nice tahoe was...I had been out there several times as a teenager. :thumbup:

great pics, i will have to check it out there during my cross country trip...although it will be during the summer so the view will differ...and SV, I think the giant meatball thing was less scary then the dancing guy

i have to say omi, i'm slightly jealous and would love to have that view and be able to see it every weekend :) ... but i do have the rockies right outside my window...so i guess that makes up for it right?? ;)

That's some fine scenery :thumbup:

ev

Absolutely. I have yet to see them up-close. Flying over 'em and into Denver doesn't quite cut it.

Glad you liked the pix, all :)

LOOK AT ALL THAT GLORIOUS SNOW!!!!!!!! :thumbup:
annnnyways, yeah man those are nice, no wonder that place is crawling with the rich and famous!