PCT at Donner Summit – Truckee, CA 11/9/23

Thursday, November 9, 2023

PCT at Donner Summit (mile 1158) – Truckee, CA (near Lake Tahoe)

Ian, Court, Greg, Cat, Isaac, MB

Sunny, cold, snow on the ground!

Only a quick jaunt

We flew up to Lake Tahoe for my buddy Greg’s 40th birthday and got some hiking in, despite the snow and ice, which I’ll get to later.

The first day we drove up to Truckee along the west side of the lake and also stopped at the Tallac Historic Estates on the way up. We used the GuideAlong app, which if you aren’t aware, is the best road trip app ever made. It follows you via GPS and tells you all kinds of facts about the area and places to stop along the way. They’ve massively expanded their tours in the past year or so and I am a HUGE fan.

www.guidealong.com for anyone interested

We then kept driving up the west side of the lake and stopped at the overlook for Emerald Bay.

We carried on up to Truckee and we’re planning on getting a couple of miles in on the PCT at Donner Summit, but the snow had other plans.

Literally a mile down the road toward the lake there was no snow at all. We decided to just hike in a few hundred yards, had a snowball fight, and then a beer at the trail head instead.

It would turn out to be a good thing we didn’t do this hike, as the drive back on the east side of the lake treated us to one of the most beautiful sunsets we have ever seen. We stopped for a good 30 minutes to watch the ever changing sky and took probably 50 pics.

More Tahoeadventures coming on the next post.