Tahoe

Went bicycling along the Truckee River on Sunday. Nice weather, very sunny and bright, not too crowded along the trail mainly because Lake Tahoe is low, about 10 feet low.

Lake Tahoe, 10 feet low from Drought

Since the rafting company runs when the lake is high enough to time the water releases for Reno with their hours of operation, and the lake isn't high enough, the rafting company is shut down this summer. This is sad, and irritating since the news claimed that the rains last month had refilled the lake. Liars. This is a couple feet lower than it was last summer, btw. 

So the river is pretty low too, more like a stream, but there's some water moving through. Without the rafters, there's less attention. I noticed that Squaw Valley (not Olympic Valley, Google Earth) is running its summer program. They had teenagers on bicycles and running, because training for triathlons is a good move at the altitude of Lake Tahoe. You are short of air, so you adapt and when you come back to sea level you go extra fast. 

Everybody with a convertible is running them with the top down right now. Especially in the morning. The upside of hot places is you can own a convertible and use it in the morning, or after sunset, and its very nice then. Its not great at noon, but people get used to the heat in California or they move somewhere else. I exercise in the mornings, myself, though today I walked closer to noon and boy was it hot when I wasn't in the shade. Shade and breeze make it bearable, but only just. It is 93'F and pretty close to as hot as it will get today. 

I am glad that El Nino is going to throw more weather into America again. This is another hurricane that is shattering in Mexico, off of Acapulco. It is expected to add to the flooding in Texas. The storms will also bring tornadoes into the Midwest, again, and more thunderstorms and wildfires into the Rockies, because that's what weather does. Its got nothing to do with people. We just get to witness it. Meh.