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—John Muir, 1912
Welcome to the Tahoe Rim Trail! This book quickly and easily provides you what you need to know to enjoy your time on this incredibly beautiful route. Having lived at Lake Tahoe most of my life, I’ve spent countless hours on area trails. While I am not a biologist, a geologist, a naturalist, or an -ist of any kind, I have learned enough about Tahoe plants, animals, and mountains to deepen my interest when I am in the woods. I’d like to help make your outdoor experience just as fun and fascinating.
An enormous, deep blue, subalpine lake surrounded by lofty, snowcapped peaks. Lush, green forests, dark volcanic peaks, stark granite faces, and hundreds of small, jewel-like lakes adorning the wilderness areas above this special lake. Does a place like that deserve a loop trail? Absolutely! Lake Tahoe might be the best place in the world to build a loop trail. In fact, it is quite remarkable that the trail was completed as recently as September 2001. The now 170-mile Tahoe Rim Trail (or TRT, as it is sometimes abbreviated here) circles one of the world’s most beautiful lakes and winds through two states, several wilderness areas, national forest and state park lands, and an incredible diversity of geology, flora, and fauna. The trail accesses both the Sierra Nevada and its Carson Range spur, each with a unique personality. It winds through aspen meadows, skirts high mountain peaks, and runs for miles along ridgetops with stunning views. You can walk for miles under a forested canopy or saunter through meadows. You can venture above treeline for long stretches. That the trail is a big loop, a circle, may be its best feature. Wherever you set off, as the days and weeks go by, you can follow the circle back to where you began. Across the big, blue expanse of the lake, you can pick out where you were a week ago, and where you will be again in another week. Much of the multiuse Tahoe Rim Trail was constructed for the pleasure of hikers, equestrians, and mountain bikers, using modern trail-building techniques, with the goal of keeping the grade below an average of 10 percent.