Photo from the Finding Tessie Boat Expedition

Here's a shot of Whale Beach from the Boat. We toured the East shore. Saw Sand Harbor, Chimney Beach, Secret Cove (the nude beach), Whale Beach and Skunk Harbor.  What happened in the Secret Cove stays with the group in the boat! It turned out to be a beautiful day for a boat ride and some good chit chat. Many thanks to Captain Deb! 

 

Kingsbury North to Spooner South TRT on Wednesday, August 18th

We're going to do the Kingsbury North to Spooner South TRT hike this Wednesday, August 18th!  According to AllTrails (usually pretty accurate as long as we stay on the trail) it's 12.5 miles and 1600 feet of climbing. According to the TRT website, it's 14.7 miles, Easy to Moderate.

The parking spots are easy to find on this one as they are

Kingsbury North  and Spooner South. I know...nice to have Google Maps links, right!

BTW, if you donated to TRTs 40 miles in 40 years campaign, I've got your Tee shirt for you (if you already didn't get it). I'll give you yours that morning (if you're joining us on the hike) or anytime you want (just let me know when).  Our team donated $1200 which is GREAT! TRT has asked that we all wear our Tee shirts and get a group picture for their website. How fun it is to be hiking superstars! I was thinking we could bring both our Tessie's Tees and our TRT tees and take pictures in both and submit them to TRT (as long as no one minds changing their shirt in the middle of the forest). 

It's going to take about an hour to get to our start point (dropping off one car at the end point). I'm going to try to get Steve and/or Wes to think of it as a fun male bonding activity to bring us to the start in the morning which would save some time on the way back. Let me know if you've got a resident in your house willing to drop us off at the start point early in the morning. We can find enough big cars to drive. The issue is finding people who love us enough to drive about 2 hours early in the morning.

As we found out on our last long hike (that ended up to be longer than I advertised) there are a few essentials we should definitely include in our bags...

1. MORE than enough WATER. I'm a big water drinker and brought 7 (I think they are 22oz each) water bottles for our 15 mile hike and it was just enough to share a little with a teammate at the end. Our team was out of water at the end. So, make sure and pack a lot of water for these hikes in hot weather. No one will drink as much water as I do, but please bring lots of water.

2. ELECTROLYTES: I put Skratch powder in my water bottles last week. Use whatever you want, but electrolytes aren't going to hurt you on a long hike.

In addition, bring..

1. Bottled water (like a gallon or so) that we can leave at the trailheads and become trail angels!

2. Your Tessies' shirt and your 4o miles in 40 years Tee shirts...whatever you've got. If you don't have them, we'll let you be the photographer!

I don't think the blog says who wrote this...Lori

Hike to Skunk Harbor today

Well, the AQI (who would've known what that stood for a few years ago) was ok today, so we walked to Skunk Harbor and back.  Oakley, Buddy and Shelby got to accompany us. And, we had a special guest young man, Sam, join us too. It was Sam and Liz's first time to Skunk Harbor. I think they'll be back!

Update on Hike from Watson Lake to TRT North

Well, we did it! There were six of us on board yesterday for a hike that we won't forget for awhile! Highlights include a lot of fun together, great views and LOTS of exercise. 

We weren't worried about staying on the TRT (even though the experts, Jane and Suzie weren't with us). And, we knew how to get to the start at Watson Lake from quite a drive there a few weeks ago. We got to Watson Lake, found the TRT sign, took our picture, and headed toward Tahoe City. All good!

The first thing we came upon was the "street" that Suzie had driven us on, on our way to Watson Lake,  during our previous hike. We were psyched to see it and hopped on. We walked about a half a mile down the street, walking on lots of rocks, before thinking that we should be making a turn to get onto a path that looks like the TRT paths, a little less wide. We looked on AllTrails and Guthook and discovered that we were off the TRT! We had to walk at least a half a mile UP the street to get back on the TRT! So, we started out doing an extra mile more than expected!

After we were on the trail, it was great! Some pictures are shown below.  

Look at the gorgeous moss on the trees!

We met some guys who volunteer to keep the TRT clear for us to hike on. Nice guys to chat with during lunch break.

Beautiful Ladies. Photographer didn't do a great job of getting pretty faces in the picture!

See the Truckee river below?

We're getting a little tired!

Still hiking! 

DONE!!!!!

A little more than the 12.5 miles advertised that we thought we'd finish in 6 hours!

Thanks to Sherry Covell for tracking which hikes we've done on which days! None of us have made all of them, so we've all got some "make up" hikes to do! 

If you haven't done so yet, join the TRT Challenge! Our team is in the list of teams and Sherry and I are showing up on the Leaderboard! 

Hike this Wednesday/ TRT, We're back!

 Trekkers,

Blue skies are back again! Let's try last week's scheduled hike again!

I hope you're all ready to hike a small segment of the TRT  this Wednesday (calendar link).  We'll be hiking from Watson Lake to Tahoe City North (the second hike on this list). We'll meet in the back of the Biltmore parking lot at 7:00AM (I know, it's early! But, it takes some time to get cars to Tahoe City and then drive back to Watson Lake...and we need time for pictures and snack/lunch breaks.)  It's marked as a. 12.5 mile, Easy to Moderate level hike. Please let me know if you're in and willing to drive, and we'll figure out how many cars we need.  We'll park some cars in Tahoe City North and take the others to Watson Lake and start from there. Maybe someone can find the hike on AllTrails or Guthook, but this is the only description I found.  After this hike, I think our group has taken on about 1/3 of the TRT in 2021! I don't think any of us have made all the TRT hikes, so we'll have to do some "makeups" at some point!

I think some boys may join us this week. That's great! The more the merrier!

If you haven't already done your clicking, remember to do so! Our team has now raised $525 for the Tahoe Rim Trail and is in possession of 5 super cute tee shirts. The Tahoe Rim Trail is celebrating its 40th anniversary and is challenging us to hike 40 miles. I think we can do it! Anyway, first click here and give a donation. If you donate over $25 you get a Tee shirt (I know, it just keeps getting better!). Let me know if you donate $25 or over and let me know what size you want (they are the Tee shirts for both men and women so go a size smaller than your usual woman's size).  

AND, click here! Click on the red button that says "Register for the 2021 Challenge Here". You can put your name in and click on our team name. It doesn't cost anything. I can't actually tell you what kind of benefit it will bring to you, but it only takes a minute and can't hurt! Also, you can start recording your miles hiked on the TRT this year. Both Sherry Covell and I are on the winners list!