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Virtual Guidebook to
Lake Tahoe and the Northern Sierra
Plumas, Sierra, Nevada, Placer, El Dorado, Amador, Calaveras, Tuolumne and Alpine Counties, California
Above Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe.

Table of Contents
(listed from northwest to southeast)

The Sierra Buttes (2)
Malakoff Diggin's, San Juan Ridge (6)
Donner Pass Route (4)
Truckee (1)
Squaw Valley (3)
West Shore of Lake Tahoe (3)
Emerald Bay (4)
South Lake Tahoe (1)
Highway Fifty Over Echo Summit (1)
Alpine County (2)
Carson Pass, Ebbetts Pass, Sonora Pass (3)

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Complete Listing
listed from northwest to southeast

The Sierra Buttes

The Pacific Crest Trail climbing past the Sierra Buttes.
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The fire lookout tower atop the Sierra Buttes.
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Malakoff Diggin's and the San Juan Ridge

North Bloomfield, headquarters town for the hydraulic mines.
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The trail into Malakoff Diggins.
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The great hydraulic mining pit at Malakoff.
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The main street of Graniteville.
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The North Fork Yuba River Canyon, from the Tyler-Foote Crossing Road.
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Bowman Lake, the source of water for hydraulic mining.
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The Donner Pass Route

Interstate 80 at Yuba Gap, Tahoe National Forest.
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The Sierra Club's Clair Tappan Lodge, near Norden.
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Concrete snowsheds over the (unused) railroad tracks at Donner Pass.
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Wreckage of the historic wooden snowsheds abover Donner Lake.
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Truckee

Boca Dam and Reservoir, an historic spot just north of the Truckee River. (7-23-05)
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Squaw Valley

South of the golf course at Squaw Valley. (7-22-00)
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The vast parking lot at Squaw Valley ski resort. (7-22-00)
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On the brew pub patio at Squaw Valley in summer. (7-22-00)
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The West Shore of Lake Tahoe

The Truckee River control gates at Tahoe City. (6-22-00)
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Private docks along the west shore of Lake Tahoe. (6-22-00)
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The beach at Meeks Bay. (6-22-00)
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Emerald Bay

At the top of the Vikingsholm trail at Emerald Bay. (6-22-00)
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Eagle Falls at Emerald Bay. (6-22-00)
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Inspiration Point, above Emerald Bay. (6-22-00)
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Lake Tahoe from the headland above Emerald Bay. (6-22-00)
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South Lake Tahoe and Stateline

Towering casinos at Stateline, Nevada/California.
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Highway Fifty Over Echo Summit

Lovers Leap, above Strawberry, during a thunderstorm. (6-28-08)
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Alpine County

The meadow at Grover Hot Springs State Park, near Markleeville.
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Early snow on the meadow at Grover Hot Springs.
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Carson Pass, Ebbetts Pass, and Sonora Pass

Big Stump (the Discovery Tree) at Calaveras Bigtrees.
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In the North Grove, Calaveras Bigtrees State Park.
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Mosquito Lake, with the first snow of the season, Ebbetts Pass Highway.
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