The Truckee River is the lake’s only outlet. The river starts at the dam in Tahoe City and snakes its way down the famous Truckee Canyon that has been the pathway for pioneers, stagecoaches, trains, and, now cars. The river passes through the center of the Town of Truckee and then Reno before it winds across the desert and finishes it’s 60-mile journey to Pyramid Lake.

The lightning-caused fires across Northern California are slowly being fought into retreat. The sound you hear is the sigh of relief from visitors and locals alike as summer gets restarted at 6,000 feet near the Sierra Crest.



Over 20,000 people, local and federal, have been deployed to battle the fires in Northern California. This includes helicopter and water tanker crews, firefighters on the ground, and equipment operators--bulldozers, etc.

The tours are self directed and maps can be seen at www.northtahoearts.com. The phone # is 530-581-2787.


The hub of the tour is the North Tahoe Art Center in Tahoe City on Highway 28 next to the fire station and above Commons Beach. The center includes a gallery with an exhibit of the Art Tour artists through July 28.

The Donner Party of people and wagons missed getting over the summit and down to Sutter's Fort (Sacramento) by about a week in late October of 1846. This group of people were the caboose in a long (wagon) train of people who DID make it all the way. Details of their saga can be read by clicking on Tahoetopia's Donner Party.

In this NASA image, smoke from the two areas is seen drifting to the north and east, i.e., toward San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento Valley. In the image, vegetation is shown in red; naturally bare ground is tan; burned ground is charcoal; smoke is light blue.

The red dots mark fire sites.

With her were World Cup colleagues Lauren Ross (Stowe, VT) and Chemmy Alcott (Great Britain).

Twenty years more (1869) and the Transcontinental Railroad connecting East and West was completed—through Truckee.

There is much to see and do in this vibrant, colorful part of the Old West that hugs the banks of the Truckee River. The river runs (only) from Lake Tahoe to Pyramid Lake in Nevada, northeast of Reno, where the river ends.

Many visits to the dam include a stop on the “Fanny Bridge” to watch the large trout that circle just below the dam’s 17 gates; a stroll through the adjacent park with its picnic tables, huge trees, and the Historical Society’s Gatekeeper’s Cabin museum; and a trip across the dam itself—where Lake Tahoe becomes the beautiful Truckee River.

He installed Park City's first snowmaking guns and doubled the uphill capacity of the resort. Snowmaking made it possible for Park City to host America's Opening World Cup races in 1986 and for several years thereafter. In 1994, Badami sold his company to Powdr, remaining chairman of the board until 2003.