Lake Tahoe

We flew into Sacramento, California and drove up to Lake Tahoe. Once we got there we climbed Mt. Rubicon. Look it up, it is 9200 feet above sea level and 3000 feet above the lake. The first picture you can see the tower. The tower is a cliff with a shear drop off of 300 feet. That is were I am sitting. It was very difficult to climb and very scary once we got on top of the cliff. It was extremely windy but the view was breath taking. You could see the mountain range called the Sierras. We climbed 2 miles to get to the top with a vertical rise of over 3000 feet. It was very steep and my legs felt like jello. It took us one hour and fifteen minutes to make the climb and we saw snow along the route. The water is very blue and the lake is much larger than it looks. It is over 11 miles wide and 22 miles long. At it's deepest point it is over 1600 feet deep. The mountains surround the lake and we were sitting on the top. Very cool.