Tahoe Rim Trail: Spooner Summit South

Today starts Spread the Spark Weekend! SparkPeople members around the world are wearing the SparkGear to help promote the website. Local SparkTeams are holding SparkRallies this w’end, but since I’m on the road, I’m a Rally of One. I excitedly put on my I ♥ SP T-Shirt today & Rich was kind enough to take pix of me on the dock here at Zephyr Point.

I also love my little $2.50 thrift store board shorts I bought last year thinking they would never fit. :-)  The hair’s a little out of control, but authentic! Hahaha

Today Rich & I tackled 3.5 miles of the 165-mile Tahoe Rim Trail. Since we had to get back to our car, it was a 7-mile hike. The TRT was built by volunteers & is a splendid piece of trail craftsmanship. It’s one of the most unobtrusive trails I’ve hiked, making minimal impact on the surrounding wilderness & is even hard to see where we’re going & where we’ve been. Our little sub-segment took us along the southeast rim w/ views thru the trees of the vastness of the great blue expanse that is Lake Tahoe.

This was the view from our Lunch Log. It was kinda hazy today, but you get the idea.

Sadly, we leave the Lake in the morning. We realized tonight that we could stay here another week and hike seven more splendid, uncrowded trails.  What’s w/ that? Where are the people? OK, it’s not the height of tourist season yet & we figure most people are on the water or in the casinos. Their bad. Our good. But, anyway, we head back to Medford & Mom, tomorrow.

And despite what I said in an earlier blog, we could totally stay here at Zephyr Point again. I don’t know if we’re ever going to have an opportunity to return, and if we do, we’re going to incorporate a trip to Yosemite, too (it’s soooo close!).

But tonight, I still have dishes, packing & the beginnings of cabin cleaning to do!