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Tobacco Brush This plant is also called snowbrush ceanothus and curlleaf ceanothus. Some say the strong pungent aroma of tobacco brush is sensuous and aromatic; to me, it smells like tobacco. With large, shiny, dark greenish-blue leaves, the plant grows up to 5 feet tall and has numerous small white flowers. Tobacco brush likes dry disturbed areas along road cuts and trails and can become the locally dominant plant.

Islands await at Middle Velma Lake.

3 Let’s All Get Along: A Trail for Everyone

The goal of the Tahoe Rim Trail Association is for all users to safely use and enjoy the trail while working to maintain and protect it. It is important that all trail users pleasantly coexist. Doing so comes down to understanding and being courteous to one another, and through recognizing that we are all out there to have fun. Hikers affect the Tahoe Rim Trail less than mountain bikers do. Although horse traffic has the greatest effect on the quality of the trail, there are far fewer horseback riders than other trail users. The only way to make sure that relations between the user groups improve and that the TRT is maintained is for users to follow some simple rules.