Lake Tahoe News

Spring is waterfall season in the Sierra Nevadas, and with this year’s record-breaking Spring snowfall amounts in North Lake Tahoe, the waterfalls are a sight to be seen. Here is a guide to finding some of the best waterfalls:

Eagle Falls (North Shore’s most prominent falls) - not far from Emerald Bay on the West Shore.

Lower Eagle Falls can be seen from the roadside on Highway 89’s Emerald Bay/Vikingsholm parking area. To get to the base of the lower falls, a one-mile walk, take the maintained trail from the Emerald Bay parking that lot leads down to the lake. Upper Eagle Falls is a short quarter-mile hike up from the Eagle Falls picnic area.

Lower Glen Alpine Creek Falls, or Fallen Leaf Falls, can be found from Fallen Leaf Lake Road, three miles northwest of the Highway 50 junction on the West Shore. From Fallen Leaf Lake Road, turn left on road 1216 to signs for the falls.

Cascade Falls - access to the trail is at Bayview Campground, opposite Emerald Bay’s Inspiration Point on the West Shore.

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Lake Tahoe is higher now than it has been in 5.5 years. The lake’s surface elevation as of Thursday was 6,227 feet, and it will most likely fill another two feet to its upper limit at 6,229 sometime this year, according to Federal Water Master Garry Stone in Reno. High precipitation numbers last year officially brought the region out of drought, according to the National Weather Service in Reno. But the lake was so depleted from years past, it took a year to catch up to normal levels.

Under federal law, it’s Stone’s job to make sure it doesn’t exceed that 6,229 level. This law was set up to make sure that high water levels do not erode the shoreline.

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With Sierra-at-Tahoe receiving 18.5 feet of snow in the month of March and Northstar-at-Tahoe receiving 12 feet, both resorts are blowing away their seasonal snowfall averages. Sierra’s average annual snowfall is 420 inches, which it has surpassed by a whopping 100 inches already with 240-520 inches falling so far this season. Northstar’s average annual snowfall total is 350 inches, which the resort has already exceeded by 10 inches with three weeks still remaining in the season.

This is great news for Skiers and boarders who still arent quite ready to put away their winter gear.

Both Sierra and Northstar are offering great Spring Break packages to encourage college spring breakers to go to the mountains instead of the beaches. Lift tickts are only $41 to Sierra and Northstar Resorts with your school ID.

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This time of year in Lake Tahoe usually sees the beginning of Spring, with snow gear and skiing a memory of the now-over winter. But not this year. Tahoe has been experiencing some unusually wintery weather this week, with snow storms and temperatures well below average. Chains were required on both Interstate 80 and U.S. 50 in California early Tuesday and chains or snows were the order of the day on most highways from Reno to Elko until temperatures warmed. Serial storms over the last three weeks have kept Reno cloudy and gray, dumping feet of snow at the higher elevations and raising the snowpack. On Monday, the Lake Tahoe basin had 20 percent more snow than normal, and the Walker River Basin 40 percent more than normal.

Monday’s high was 43, 15 degrees below the normal 58

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