this was my first trip ever to a cabela's store. i enjoyed the drive over there as much as the store itself. carson valley is a beautiful place and reno was nothing like i expected. as you can see in the pictures, you don't just shop in cabela's. i wish we had pictures of LH and me practicing in the toy shooting range =)
emerald bay is a beautiful place on lake tahoe with, surprise, emerald colored water. we took a boat ride out to it to get a closer look. there is an amazing castle on emerald bay that was built back in 1929. it definitely looks like it could have been built in the past decade.
after spending a couple of hours on the boat to emerald bay, LH, my FIL and i were ready for some fishing. we headed over to the gorgeous and very hidden echo lake. this is the same echo lake where i was uber-worried about mountain lions attacking me. the echo chalet is incredibly stocked. i would go so far as to call it a mini whole foods! i guess they have to keep it full of such yummy and organic foods because of all the desolation wilderness hikers and cabin owners that visit. oh, and please don't out me on my fashion faux-pas of wearing boots with shorts. sometimes you have to do that in the mountains.
we also fished at fallen leaf lake. here, a steller jay kept coming back to visit LH and me. probably because i fed him a peanut...
i wish i had more pictures to share, but i'm notorious for enjoying the moment and totally forgetting about pulling out the camera until it's too late. oh well! hope you enjoyed...
4 comments:
Your pictures brought back memories for me. When we were stationed in Monterey and before we had kids, we went up to stay in one of the military MWR cottages at Lake Tahoe with two other couples. We had a great time visiting Emerald Cove and seeing the castle and riding our bikes around the lake.
Glad you had a good trip, too!
Isn't the castle fun?! We found it a few years ago & loved that you got to take a short hike to it.
Okay...now this makes me homesick! :)
Great pictures! I can't believe we never made it there when we were so close.
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