Lake Tahoe...in Winter

We were planning for an outing during Christmas vacation this year. We finally ended with a trip to Lake Tahoe.. wow! what a wonderful place it was....I have always heard about snow, seen it in TV.. it was the first time I saw snow in my life!

Lake Tahoe is the second deepest lake in US..It was formed 2 million years ago!! We were about to see this oldest Lake in the world..wow!

The Lake is spread across 2 states in US : Nevada and California.The tourist attractions in Tahoe area available in 2 regions, North and South Lake Tahoe.These regions are known for the enchanting Valleys around them.

In Summer, water rides are popular and in winter, its all snow time!

Our trip was for 3 days..We started on the Christmas eve..we planned to start by 8'clk

in the morning, and as usual, we got late, and started at 12'clk , Friday afternoon..I could see a gradual change in the scenic view, as we traveled.I saw beautiful meadows, Farms and slowly it started getting cold.We could see tall trees welcoming us to Tahoe..wow...truly breath taking!

As we were nearing Tahoe, we saw a Bridal Veil falls of Lake Tahoe. It was a tiny, cute water falls, flowing from a small creek.

It really excited me at lot, and soon, I could see snow all way. We saw a giant snowman, built by the visitors of Tahoe. I really loved it!

We reached South Lake Tahoe around 4pm. It was already dark and we couldn't visit any place at Tahoe that day.We stayed at Richarson Resort at the South Lake Tahoe.We found an Indian restaurant nearby, and it was very crowded..we had our dinner after 1 hour of waiting time.All hotels were buzzing with people, since it was a 'hot' tourist spot during 'Cold' Christmas.

On Saturday, we headed to the Hope Valley, in South Lake Tahoe for Snowmobiling. It was very cold that day, and my husband drove the heavy and sturdy vehicle.It was an exciting ride, we went off track twice. We reached about 7200ft high and rested in the place, where Die Hard 2 was filmed.

That evening, we went to enjoy the breath taking view of the South Lake Tahoe. The shore was all covered with snow, and the steps that was leading to the shore was all snow..we had to literally slide all our way through the snow.

It was Sunday morning, we woke up at 6 am. It had been snowing all night, and our car was under a pile of snow!! We cleaned the car and vacated the guest house. We quickly headed to Gondola ride at Heavenly Hills. It was a must see ride at the Lake Tahoe. We got the most amazing view of the entire lake from the ride..

We halted at about approx. 9000 ft high valley, had a hot star bucks coffee and enjoyed the beauty of the valley, snow fall and the panoramic view of the lake..It was freezing -4 degree Celsius...It was really a heavenly view! We proceeded to the top of the Heavenly hills, at about 1000ft we had to return due bad weather conditions.

We started towards North Lake Tahoe.. we saw many scenic places on our way..we saw the Emerald Bay and proceeded to Squaw Valley

We went for SnowTubing for one hour..the rate was nominal of 20$ per head.We could take 6 rides and enjoyed the 'Snow Tubing' from a height less than 150 ft.

We took breakfast items with us, and this turned very helpful..we could reach the places we wanted to visit in time since we didn't have waiting time in the crowded eat outs.Lake Tahoe has a lot of fun places..we could visit 2 adventures per day..so it is better to plan the fun activities before the trip..