{"id":711,"date":"2009-07-17T08:01:08","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T08:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/?p=680"},"modified":"2009-07-17T08:01:08","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T08:01:08","slug":"jewell-of-the-sierras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/jewell-of-the-sierras\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewell of the Sierras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s how they describe Lake Tahoe. Everytime I drive over the 7,377 ft Echo Summit on Hwy50 and catch the first glimpse of Lake Tahoe I imagine how the first non-indigenous explorer to see Lake Tahoe (Lt. <a title=\"John C. Fr\u00e9mont\" href=\"\/wiki\/John_C._Fr%C3%A9mont\">John C. Fr\u00e9mont<\/a> in 1844)  must have felt to find such a stunningly beautiful expanse of fresh water (the largest alpine lake in N. America and the second deepest at 1645ft) after having crossed the dry expanse of the Nevada desert.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"south-shore-lake-tahoe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/south-shore-lake-tahoe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-681 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/south-shore-lake-tahoe.jpg\" alt=\"south-shore-lake-tahoe\" width=\"500\" height=\"259\" align=\"none\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Arguably the Nevada shoreline up around Sand Harbor is the best area for kayaking but I had to &#8216;make do&#8217; with the South Shore.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"emerald-bay\" href=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/emerald-bay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-682 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/emerald-bay.jpg\" alt=\"emerald-bay\" width=\"434\" height=\"304\" align=\"none\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The say Emerald Bay is one of the most photographed locations in the world and I did my best to keep up that reputation as I paddled over from Regan Beach into the horseshoe bay and around Fannette Island.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"emerald-bay3\" href=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/emerald-bay3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-683 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/emerald-bay3.jpg\" alt=\"emerald-bay3\" width=\"389\" height=\"292\" align=\"none\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even though I was on the water at 7am I had to fight a few gusts on the way into the bay and I was happy to use the skeg on the Capella 163 on the return leg as an increasing wind blew up from the south.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"dsc03832\" href=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/dsc03832.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-684 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/dsc03832.jpg\" alt=\"dsc03832\" width=\"389\" height=\"292\" align=\"none\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had to feel sorry for a couple who were having to fight to make headway against the breeze on their fat sit-on-tops whilst my Capella cut almost effortlessly through the small chop. By playing with the skeg until I got it balanced just right, I found the Capella to track without any need for correction strokes or edging &#8211; quite remarkable for such a short and manouverable kayak.<\/p>\n<p>The three hour paddle ended all too soon but at least I then got to see the lake from above as well as I took my daughter for a short hike.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"proud-dad\" href=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/proud-dad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-685 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/proud-dad.jpg\" alt=\"proud-dad\" width=\"371\" height=\"540\" align=\"none\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>One day I will make a full circuit by kayak of the 72mile shoreline of Lake Tahoe. Until then I will continue to explore this jewell bit by bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s how they describe Lake Tahoe. Everytime I drive over the 7,377 ft Echo Summit on Hwy50 and catch the first glimpse of Lake Tahoe I imagine how the first non-indigenous explorer to see Lake Tahoe (Lt. John C. Fr\u00e9mont in 1844) must have felt to find such a stunningly beautiful expanse of fresh water [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trip-reports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}