Tahoma Market & Deli
Posted: October 28, 2020 Filed under: Travel | Tags: market, supplies, Tahoma Leave a comment
The Tahoma Market & Deli has posted a November re-opening date!
The market has undergone a huge remodel, inside and out. (Please note, this is a old photo.) This is a local market just south of the turn to the Rubicon Trail on Highway 89. It’s a great place to stop and pick-up final supplies on your way to the trail.
In my opinion, they make the best sandwiches in the entire Lake Tahoe Basin. I hope they return with the same great sandwiches and service.
https://www.tahomamarketdeli.com/
The website is a little basic right now but if you need a job, they’re hiring.
Another Rubicon Area Fire
Posted: October 26, 2020 Filed under: Access, Travel | Tags: eldorado, fire Leave a commenthttps://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/7254/
Fire resources are responding to the Point Incident north of Elliott Bridge. Initially reported at 6:30 AM the fire is estimated to be at 20 acres, the response includes 7 engines, 3 water tenders, 3 hand crews, overhead resources and additional aircraft on order. For more Point fire information call 530-303-2455. From Inciweb
The Point Fire is on 20 acres but there are winds in the area.
Link below to Bald Mountain camera.
http://www.alertwildfire.org/tahoe/?camera=Axis-BaldCA
The Bunker Hill camera is sometimes pointed in the right direction.
Tahoe Side Paved
Posted: October 26, 2020 Filed under: Maintenance, Travel | Tags: bypass, hardening, paved, TNF Leave a commentNot surprisingly, the Forest Service went too far. I fully understand the hardening of the trail. Erosion could cause the loss of the trail. Sedimentation running off in to the water ways will get our trails closed. But there is no reason to pave the trail.
Last week, the Tahoe National Forest, under the direction of Joe Chavez, paved sections of the Rubicon Trail, specifically along Cadillac Hill.
This project was sold to the Rubicon Partners and users as a hardening project. They were to harden the bypass (that I don’t personally agree with), they were going to harden and stabilize parts of Cadillac Hill that were slowly eroding away and they were going to move and place select boulders from out of the area to spots along Cadillac to act as key anchors for drainages and hardening efforts.
My thanks to Scot of the Hi-Lo’s for providing the pictures!
Hardening the bypass around the fixable Mud Hole
Hardening below the Notch
Hardening below V-rock
Hardening below the Driveway (but it will get kicked out)
I get hardening. It needs to happen. It needs to happen more. What I don’t get is clearing the trail of boulders. If I wanted that, I’d take Highway 50.
I don’t know if those key boulders were brought in from above Cadillac to to be key anchors but large boulders were removed from the Rubicon Trail.
Below Morris, also some hardening took place
Further below Morris
Bottom of Cadillac
There’s not much that can be done right now. Winter will change the trail. Joe can always hire the Spider Excavator to go back out and replace the boulders on to the trail, but he won’t.
Moving forward, I think the users should attach a watch dog to the side of Joe Chavez. Someone should go everywhere Joe goes to make sure he doesn’t do something like this again.
If you remember, Joe’s first day on the trail he wanted to close the bypasses going up Cadillac. He only wanted a single trail all the way up. If I wasn’t there to talk him out of it we would have lost trail.
We didn’t lose trail this time, it was just paved, but who knows what he’ll want to do next time.
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Rubicon Ronin
Tahoma Kiosk Installed
Posted: October 20, 2020 Filed under: Access, Travel | Tags: kiosk, map, staging Leave a comment
Today I drove up to the staging area just to see the progress on the new kiosk. And it’s almost done!
It is not what I expected but it’s a HUGE improvement over the old kiosk.
The asphalt coming next summer will run right up to the concrete base.
The new kiosk is much bigger than the old one, which I’m trying to move to the Middle Fork trailhead in Blackwood Canyon. Not only does it have twice the space for posting information, it has the same amount of space on the backside…
The Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit has also developed a new map which will be posted 4’x8′. No need to get out the glasses to figure out where you’d like to go.
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Rubicon Ronin
Rubicon Maintenance
Posted: October 20, 2020 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentI’m not going to bother rewriting what has already been posted. Let me be lazy and send you to the source:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/rubigazette
The Rubicon Gazette Facebook page is a great source for what’s happening on the Rubicon Trail. So far, this is the only report and photos I’ve seen of last weeks efforts.
The 'Other' Rubicon 