Donner Pass to Mt Judah

Donner Pass to Ewer Saddle

Jones Whites Creek Creek loop

The Jones Whites Creek loop, just southwest of Reno, is at a relatively low elevation, so it is an early-season hike, since snow clears there pretty early. It's a loop trail, about 9 or 10 miles long. Most of the trail was clear, but there were a couple of snow patches on the north facing slopes.
One of the best features is that you hit varying types of terain; from dry exposed desert, to pine forest, to rushing creeks.

Brockway Summit

Hunter Creek Falls

Fuller Lake

Due to the late snowpack, early season hikes this year have to be at lower elevations, so we took an easy hike to Fuller Lake. It is located near the CA NV border, just east, and across the Truckee River from Gold Ranch casino. Parking is at the end of Belli Ranch Road. Cross the railroad tracks, and head uphill to the south east. The trail is actual a series of dirt and gravel jeep trails. Not much of a hike, but a good pre-season hike to get the legs working again.
The lake is an old Boy Scout camp, and it has old buildings that are in serious need of attention.

Looking north, towards Gold Ranch, across the Truckee River

Fuller Lake

John and Ron

Looking West across I-80

Thruckee River, and I-80

Fuller Lake, with Boy Scout knot-tying everywhere!

Introduction to Dave's TRT trip

This blog tells the story of my Tahoe Rim Trail hike in the summer of 2009. It is in two main sections, one is the actual description of the hike, with accompanying photos. The other part is what I call "everything I know about hiking the TRT".

I don't claim to be an expert at hiking, the TRT, or anything else (ok, I do know a hell-of-a-lot about drip irrigation system setup, but that's a different story!), so don't rely on my information for anything more than just another way to get some additional information or trail descriptions. Some of my pictures turned out pretty well, though. By sharing my experiences from the trail, it just might help you get inspired to get out and hike!

I've set up two ways to follow the blog.
The easiest is to go to the "Pages" section, then click on "Dave's hike- Tahoe Rim Trail - in order by date". That takes you to an outline, by date, of the entire trip. Each subject has a link, so everything is in the right order.
The other way to follow it, is by the traditional "blog archive" way, but it isn't as easy to follow the trip in order.The actual hike descriptions are listed by date, and so you can start at the bottom, for the start of the trip, July 31, 2009, and end on Sept 6, 2009.

Enjoy, and get out and hike!