Last Days at Spooner Lake

Hello everyone!! Hope all are trying to have a nice summer. We are finally enjoying ours up here near Lake Tahoe. Now we only have about 7 more days left and we head to our next host spot in California. Knights Ferry, it’s an Army Corp of Engineer day use park. We have been having a great time up here at Spooner Lake, Tahoe Nevada State Park. We have done a lot of good things for this park to get ready for the many hikers to hike the 2.8 miles around Spooner Lake, and this is also a trail head for the many other trails that overlook Lake Tahoe, The famous Marlette Lake flume trail, plus the 165 mile Tahoe Rim Trail that goes all around Lake Tahoe.

This is some of the work we have done in the park.. Our main concern in this park is to maintain and clear the hiking and biking trails. Plus we are to clean and maintain 3 primitive campgrounds up the trails along with 2 nice log cabin rentals.

This is a trail map of all the trails that we are to maintain and clean up. Spooner lake is at the bottom of the Map.. All up and down these trails is where you can get the best views of Lake Tahoe. That is where some of the pictures you see of mine of the Flume Trail and Marlette Lake..

Jodi and I have done some awesome site seeing while we have been here, and I want to highlight some of the sites we have seen and done.

We went down to Carson City and have seen a few places. We stopped at the train museum and have seen some of the old trains that were involved in the connection of the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad making it a completed Transcontinental Railroad back in 1869… We went on a nice train ride in one of the old trains that was built back in the late 1800s.. While on our trip we saw some wild horses, deer and lots of history. We went by some old mines getting to Virginia City. 

We recently drove all the way around Lake Tahoe; A driving tour with our own truck and drove clock wise. We got to a few scenic areas and most were so packed, we couldn’t even stop. We did our best and did see some nice spots.

All around our park we have lots of wild flowers popping up. The snow finally has gone and the flowers are blooming. We have some squirrels that look like chipmunks and they love our bird feeder.

We had a chance to go up one of the trails that they call the Marlette Flume Trail. It is famous for mountain bikes to go and see the views of Lake Tahoe. It is a very scary cliff trail; make one mistake you’re dead kind of trail… we checked it out… Got some real beautiful pictures of that trail and Marlette lake. Marlette Lake is 7,823 Feet  in elevation.. Still snow up here in June/July….

Well in a few weeks we will be on our way to a new hosting position in California. Heading to another new place and another adventure. We have not even scratched the surface of all the amazing places to see in the beautiful country of ours..

Going to leave you with some more of my pictures of this awesome place they call Lake Tahoe….

Stay tuned and when we arrive in California and settled in to our new location. I will add some good information to our blog….

Enjoy your summer and Happy 4^th of July, be safe and get ready for some interesting weather for the rest of the year.  

The Bobble Head Travelers,   Mark and Jodi