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The TRTA depends on the support of our many donors and members in ensuring the success of the organization. All TRTA members receive quarterly newsletters with updates on trail programs and the association, invitations to all TRTA events, including the annual meeting, and an opportunity to join the 165 Mile Club. We invite you to become a member and join the family of friends who continue to support the legacy created by thousands to benefit millions for generations to come. For more information on the Tahoe Rim Trail and the association, visit www.tahoerimtrail.org.

Fontanillis Lake and Dicks Peak

Mary Bennington, Executive Director, Tahoe Rim Trail Association, May 2012

1 Introduction to the Tahoe Area and the Tahoe Rim Trail

Then it seemed to me the Sierra should not be called the Nevada, or Snowy Range, but the Range of Light. And after ten years spent in the heart of it, rejoicing and wondering, bathing in its glorious floods of light, seeing the sunbursts of morning among the icy peaks, the noonday radiance on the trees and rocks and snow, the flush of the alpenglow, and a thousand dashing waterfalls with their marvelous abundance of irised spray, it still seems to be above all others the Range of Light, the most divinely beautiful of all the mountain chains I have ever seen.