Tahoe Rim Trail

The Tahoe Rim Trail is 165 miles long and completely encircles Lake Tahoe.

The photos on this page show a segment that goes to Star Lake.  The first switchback has a beautiful view of Reno.

The next switchback shows Lake Tahoe.

Something took out the center of this tree and made it branch out.

Note the circular green farm fields at the right (south) end of the valley.

Closeup.

Part of the Washoe Valley (south of Reno) is very marshy in spring.

The trail keeps going up and giving ever more altitude on the valley views.

Zooming in.

Magnificent trees.

We saw a glider plane being towed up over the valley.

The back of Slide Mountain.

Don't know the name of this mountain.

Incredible scenery and still a lot of snow for July.

Towards the southeast, the mountains on the other side of Washoe Valley have snow.

There's even some patches of snow on the trail at 7000'.

Towards the left is a bit of Washoe Lake.

A mountain stream.

One portion of the trail had more ant hills than I have ever seen in one place.

I liked this tree bark.

Roots of dead tree.

More dead roots.

Wildflowers.

Some weird orange fungus.

I really like this orange fungus.

Yellow fungus.

White fungus on a dead tree trunk.

I really like lichens, so here are a few photos.

More lichen.

The green stuff seems to lead the way for the brown.

Here's a really dark-colored one.

Nice brown lichen.

I don't know if this airy yellow-green stuff is lichen or what.

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