Rim Rewards Series LbNA #48027 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Jun 10, 2009 |
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| City: | Stateline |
| County: | Douglas |
| State: | Nevada |
| Boxes: | 4 |
| Found by: | Ragamuffin (4) |
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| Last found: | Aug 9, 2009 |
| Status: | F |
| Last edited: | Jun 10, 2009 |
The Tahoe Rim Trail extends 165 miles through California and Nevada. This series starts at the Kingsbury Grade North Trailhead. You will walk just under 1 mile roundtrip, but plan for it to take at least an hour. There are no facilities, so bring plenty of water. Wear sturdy shoes and use your trusty walking stick. You will be hiking on a dirt trail and will cross over and past many rocky areas. We would not recommend this hike unless you were acclimated to the altitude. You will begin at 7780 feet and will ascend about 125 feet. Normally that would not be challenging for most people, but at altitude give yourselves a couple of days before doing this walk.
Driving north on Hwy. 50 through Stateline, Nevade, turn right onto the Kingsbury Grade, Hwy. 207. Turn on North Benjamin Drive. North Benjamin will become Andria Drive. After 2 miles you will come to a dead end. Park in front of the Trailhead kiosk on your left. Note the cautions about possible wildlife encounters. Then follow the trail signs to the Vista Point.
#1 Ready Refreshment
Walk up the trail, catch an amazing view in the distance, then pass a car sized boulder on your left. Carefully walk up a stone "staircase". At the top watch for two pines on the right. The second one seems to be growing out of a large rock. To enjoy your Ready Refreshment, look under granite and debris behind and beneath the left side of a large boulder resting on the upper tree, just inside a split. Rest a few minutes and enjoy the views.
#2 Directional Dial
Continue on up the trail stepping between and over lots of rocks. Pass a granite wall on your right. You will soon traverse an area that shows the results of mountain wild fire and will then come to a superb view of the lake and mountains beyond. Keep walking, taking note of the fallen behemoth above and to your right. It seems to go on and on, divided into long sections parallel to the trail. Staying on the trail, follow the behemoth to where it ends as two large sawn-off stumps looming above a car sized boulder resting on a small ringed round of granite. Go up along the left side of the boulder about 6 feet to a 2 foot long rectangular granite block. Your Directional Dial is waiting under rocks and debris in a crevice to the right of the rectangle.
Natural Nobility #3 - Bighorn Sheep
There were no Bighorn Sheep at Lake Tahoe before today. But the beauty of this area enhances the nobility of our Bighorn. Continue on the trail until you reach a trail marker. Take the left fork that continues to the Vista Point. As you approach the looming rock formation, you will encounter a towering Lodgepole Pine in the center of the trail. Stop here and sight 10 degrees. Go 33 steps on this sighting to a large Spruce with a sizeable deadfall leaning in front of it and resting on two rocks. The Bighorn is resting under a SPOR and debris between the rocks.
#4 Buffet Bear
Backtrack on the trail to the trail marker. Turn left onto the main trail. After about 60 steps you will pass two large crags on the right and a fallen behemoth on each side of the trail. Continue about 140 steps to a jagged snag on the left of the trail. After about 100 more steps the trail will take you across a large flat granite slab. Look for three more flat granite slabs stepping up away from the trail on your right. The top slab has a bear's den in a SPOR under it.Return the way you came, enjoying the views in reverse.
Driving north on Hwy. 50 through Stateline, Nevade, turn right onto the Kingsbury Grade, Hwy. 207. Turn on North Benjamin Drive. North Benjamin will become Andria Drive. After 2 miles you will come to a dead end. Park in front of the Trailhead kiosk on your left. Note the cautions about possible wildlife encounters. Then follow the trail signs to the Vista Point.
#1 Ready Refreshment
Walk up the trail, catch an amazing view in the distance, then pass a car sized boulder on your left. Carefully walk up a stone "staircase". At the top watch for two pines on the right. The second one seems to be growing out of a large rock. To enjoy your Ready Refreshment, look under granite and debris behind and beneath the left side of a large boulder resting on the upper tree, just inside a split. Rest a few minutes and enjoy the views.
#2 Directional Dial
Continue on up the trail stepping between and over lots of rocks. Pass a granite wall on your right. You will soon traverse an area that shows the results of mountain wild fire and will then come to a superb view of the lake and mountains beyond. Keep walking, taking note of the fallen behemoth above and to your right. It seems to go on and on, divided into long sections parallel to the trail. Staying on the trail, follow the behemoth to where it ends as two large sawn-off stumps looming above a car sized boulder resting on a small ringed round of granite. Go up along the left side of the boulder about 6 feet to a 2 foot long rectangular granite block. Your Directional Dial is waiting under rocks and debris in a crevice to the right of the rectangle.
Natural Nobility #3 - Bighorn Sheep
There were no Bighorn Sheep at Lake Tahoe before today. But the beauty of this area enhances the nobility of our Bighorn. Continue on the trail until you reach a trail marker. Take the left fork that continues to the Vista Point. As you approach the looming rock formation, you will encounter a towering Lodgepole Pine in the center of the trail. Stop here and sight 10 degrees. Go 33 steps on this sighting to a large Spruce with a sizeable deadfall leaning in front of it and resting on two rocks. The Bighorn is resting under a SPOR and debris between the rocks.
#4 Buffet Bear
Backtrack on the trail to the trail marker. Turn left onto the main trail. After about 60 steps you will pass two large crags on the right and a fallen behemoth on each side of the trail. Continue about 140 steps to a jagged snag on the left of the trail. After about 100 more steps the trail will take you across a large flat granite slab. Look for three more flat granite slabs stepping up away from the trail on your right. The top slab has a bear's den in a SPOR under it.Return the way you came, enjoying the views in reverse.