Just off Tahoe City, it appears like a whale is breaching just as the lake channels toward the dam. This view is looking east toward the Carson Range, which runs north and south along the Nevada shore.



Shallow water--down six feet from the summer high--as the Truckee River begins to form, just before the dam gates.



This view, below, is looking west toward the dam itself and the start of the Truckee River, which ends in Pyramid Lake, northeast of Reno.



Here is a rare sight, the dam, looking from the east to the west, with all gates wide open...and nothing much happening!



Silently the dam--and all the people--wait.