Tahoe City

These are the early players in that scene at the time.

And, you know, 85, there's an article about the natural half pipe at the Tahoe City dump.

So the word is out.

It's sick and feels zany, you know, when you kind of look at it.

And he credits Bob Klein.

Bob is a Tahoe legend.

And he was like, Bob was instrumental in helping kind of introduce me to the snowboard community up in navigating like Tahoe, all the locals, you The Terry Kidwells and Keith Kimmel's of the world, like Bob introduced Tom, took him to the Tahoe City Dump half pipe.

Tom's like, yeah, Terry's launch and airs right over my head.

So, snow in each super El Niño event, Denver, Colorado, and Heavenly Valley, California, Denver, Colorado, and Heavenly Valley Ski Resort near Lake Tahoe, they were all three very heavy snow.

Lincoln, Des Moines, and Tahoe City, two out of three.

Kansas City, Oklahoma City, and Springfield are boom or bust.

And then Breckenridge, Colorado, near average snow, so no major impact from El Niño in Colorado.

My husband and I took a road trip across the Pacific Northwest a few years back.

The trip itself was two weeks going from Tahoe City, California to Olympia, Washington.

It was spring, and we were super excited because we love the rain.

We lived in Arizona for most of our life, so when we moved to California for my husband's new job, we wanted to go on a trip and experience something besides desert.

I've been on three parts of the trail and they're all different.

Much of the trail is easy to reach from areas like Tahoe City.

There are very easy to reach ins and outs from the lake.

In fact, this is where a lot of through hikers park.

I've done episodes on all these as I talked about, so check those out if you want.

If instead you're just going out for trail run, this will give you a great workout and you'll get the elevation gain and you'll just have fun and see some beautiful things and you'll get some nice miles in.

Now, Tahoe City is a great place to go.

Now it is, since you are starting from the lake level, you are gonna get elevation going up quite a ways.

Either that or, you know, it's, it measures the tenacity and the grit, right, w- of you coming to the table.

Um, one of our projects that we're looking at in, uh, Lake Tahoe, um, it's actually been the f- it's the first hotel that's been approved in over 60 years in Tahoe City.

Um, but it's taken nine years for the groups to get it through approval and entitlement, which kinda put that into perspective.

Um, that's eight and a half years too long.

You know, I've had DUIs, a couple DUIs.

My last one was in Tahoe City, and the jail was quite nice.

They brought me coffee the next morning.

And I hired an attorney, you know, a mediocre attorney, not a cheap one, but not an expensive one.

I know.

I think I was trying to get to Tahoe City, the aid station, and I had that exact thought.

I was like, if you get there, you can lay down, you can get your feet taken care of, but you just got to get there as fast as you can.

So just keep moving and it'll be good.

She headed out before me.

And then that's when I picked up my pacer and we just started cruising from there.

And then, yeah, I think it was after Tahoe City that we were like, all right, now is when we start pushing hard.

was there any moment that was really difficult when you did the 200 miles because you can plan one thing but when you go and start doing the actual racing then the plan meets sometimes the reality and it is not as what you thought it would be because like you said so many things can change and so many things can happen so what was the actually the hardest part for you for the in the race