Well we nearly made a big mistake here!!!. We knew that the weather in Lake Tahoe area was deteriorating however we did not know by how much. Our journey from Lone Pine started off in bright sun and nice and warm but as we got further north and started climbing the Sierra Nevada Mountains we started to experience snow and heavy rain. We reached Carson City and had a brief lunch before setting off for Lake Tahoe.
We found the US route 50 Ok but sort of missed a sign saying only to proceed if you have snow tyres or snow chains. So up the mountain road we went only to find the snow getting heavier and heavier and everybody else stopping to put on snow chains. So we decided that this was not good and that we would turn round and go back down the hill however this was not possible as the road had a large concrete wall between the carriageways. To stop would be insane as perhaps we would not get going again and finally we found a police car and we slowed down to ask what to do and he shouted at us to stop blocking the highway. We could not go off highway incase we got stuck in the snow and so went on. Lucky we had decided to change the car we had ordered for Las Vegas to a Chrysler Pacifica which in fact had four wheel drive and helped us enormously..
Finally after about 8 miles we started going down from 8000 feet and going down in thick snow without snow tyres is not easy but somehow and with considerable luck we arrived at our hotel safely and we both let out a deep breath. We won't do that again in a hurry but we might be stuck here for a couple of days. Let's see what the weather does tomorrow as more snow is predicted.
The hotel is the Best Western and is right by the lake and perhaps is very nice but for all the bloody snow everywhere, anyway let's see what tomorrow will bring.
I have now discovered why we could not load photos. It was not the slow internet connection but that we had exceeded our space and so bit by bit I will delete past photos but if you would like to receive copies I will create a seperate online photo album to send out afterwards.
Well we are about to go for an Italian dinner in the hotel and then watch the snow continue to fall and redo the pictures for the past days journal and try and bring it completely up to date with the latest pictures
