After spending two, three weeks at Mush’s farm house, I left to go to Lake Tahoe and work there at the Tallac National Historic Site as a volunteer. As I was leaving I took a pix of the old barn across the road from her farm.
After crossing the Missouri, I was on Interstate 680 I think, I stopped at the aerospace museum.
A couple of days pass before I take anymore pixs.
I spent the night at a city park somewhere…and they had some animals hanging around. Took a shot of this elk, poor guy, no females, look how his coat is all shaggy.
The next day I got into SLC, and the day after headed out passed SL. I stopped at a rest stop that overlooks the lake. The white is all dry salt.
I’m in Nevada and this rain storm pops up…I like storms.
An hour later and it looked like this.
A day or two later, I’m heading up the mountains outside of Reno, NV. After cresting the mountains, I start dropping into the large bowl that holds Lake Tahoe. About a mile or two out of the first town is the park from where I took these photos…
The evening of the day I got to Tahoe was cool, not cold, but sometime during the night, it did this…
So, I took a walking tour of the grounds around the Tallac National Historic Site. I’ll be working here as a volunteer. Carpentry, electrical, etc. Whatever they want me to do. But during the off time, what views, this place is a gem.
I can’t tell you how spectacular this place is. I’ve never been here until now but, like all of us, I have heard about it all my life.
This is the front door to the museum at Tallac. We (the volunteers) had our lounge here. Computer, coffee maker, mailboxes, etc. The building is two stories. The main room is behind the door there with a huge fireplace on the north wall.
Front door.
This is the beach in front of the ‘home’ of the Baldwin’s (original owners), where I’ll be working. Looking north.
A few days later, the snow was gone, the weather was much warmer and we went to a nearby lake, Fallen Leaf Lake, to open some buildings meant to house the national guard crew that was coming up to work on the museums roof. The electric service wasn’t ready for them so they stayed in a local motel for two weeks instead. Cost the Forest Service a bundle.
Perhaps I take a break from work to pee…or not.
This is some of the crew, the two in front are Allie and Mike, they’re both Forest Service employees, the two in back are volunteers, Mel and what’s-his-name. We spent several hours opening and cleaning and fixing stuff here, all to have it go unused for weeks. Because the electrical contractor hadn’t finished a rewiring job started the previous fall.
This is the wetland close to the Tallac site. The FS is trying to reclaim the area and let it do it’s job of cleansing the water that flows into Lk Tahoe. It’s in pretty good shape now.
There are trails that wind around the area and there is a ‘Stream Profile’ house that is below ground next to the stream so you can get a cross section view of the stream (it’s too big to be called a creek but to small to call a river). Oh, and you’ll see some fish too. I also saw some chicken wire wrapped around trees near the stream but the beavers just climbed up on the wire and cut down the trees anyway. There were about 6-7 trees felled that way near the profile house. The FS captured them and moved them someplace.
More wetlands…
