Everyone's got to have a goal, and one of the one's for today was to gain some elevation out of the Lake Tahoe Basin on 431, part of the series of walks from the California coast to the Nevada border, and now beyond. Where will it end? Evidently probably farther than
Birdie Road, the end-up point on the walk for today.
The day begins with more composition, orchestration, and pdf'ing, including Psalm 99 (page 2) with The Decameron - Second Day (19) and Double Piano Concerto ("Fellow Travellers") (24), Violin Concerto ("Ticklish") (61) and pdf of San Timoteo Can[yon]tata (5) -- before heading across the Sacramento Valley,
upslope to
Auburn,
past Bear River Valley,
over Yuba Gap and
Pass,
alongside
Castle
Peak,
descending
Donner Grade into
Truckee,
then
up
and
down 257
into the Tahoe Basin.
Beyond Brockway and
Crystal Bay,
the way begins at the 28 / 431 junction,
with an ascent in view of the
Lake,
churches,
housing,
ridges, and
various
roadworks,
to the aforementioned
golfclubby intersection.
Back in the car,
cannot resist a drive further north to the haripin and
Ridge viewpoints,
then further afield to
Tahoe
Meadows
and
Mt. Rose
Summit
(i.e. Pass),
taking in the
surplus
signage and the
tempting trailhead to the actual Peak, which we hope to accomplish sometime later in the season. Following this, the long journey back via 395 north and 80 west.
