Ted's Hiking World Round Lake
Eldorado National Forest

August 28, 2025

Thanks, all for a very nice day.  It helped to have rained a bit recently.

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Getting started

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The local woodpecker hangoug

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Big Meadow

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These corn lilies are typical of all the plants at this time

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Bikers' warnings on the steep downhill

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Opting for the shorter walk today; Dardanelles Lake can wait

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This old blaze has been nearly repaired

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Conglomerate is everywhere

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Lava stops at nothing

This lava flow originated at the extinct Mount Pluto, which is located six miles west of Kings Beach, at the southern tip of the Northstar complex.  It was active in the Pleistocene era, about 1-2½ million years ago.  During that period, Lake Tahoe's shoreline was raised up and down to as much as 600 feet above its present level.

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Round Lake

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Dardanelles overlook the eastern shore

The Dardanelles Strait is an internationally significant waterway in northwestern Turkey that forms part of the continental boundary between Asia and Europe and separates Asian Turkey from European Turkey.  Apparently the word has been applied to rock formations resembling those found in the strait.  Online dictionaries offer no actual definition for "dardanelle", which I find to be rather strange.

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Lunch time

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Acarospora Fungi

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Mountain Monardella *
Aged Snow Plants

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The north shore

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Rubber Rabbitbrush

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The Sugar Pine needs a helping hand *
Sierra Juniper

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Needing to catch up

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Back near the meadow

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Late-stage Horsemint *
Skyrocket

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Back near the meadow

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Mountain Dandelion *
Pacific Aster

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Oregon Checkerbloom *
Western Aster

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At the Scotts Lake junction

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Fringed Willowherb

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Jim's Anderson Thistle

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Mt. Tallac dominates Lake Tahoe's west side

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Almost finished

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