Exploring Tahoe Further...

We set off for a day of hiking and adventuring.  I had been taken on this excellent hike with our friends, Bob and Jenny, when Steve was out of town, and I wanted to share it with our current group of explorers.  No one was disappointed (not even the mosquitoes).

Modjeska Falls on Glen Alpine Creek is a perfect first stop. The falls acquired its unusual name when actress Helena Modjeska (1840-1909) admired them while visiting Glen Alpine Springs Resort (our destination, too).
Lily Lake is a stunning pause along the path.
The wildflowers were in glorious abundance.  What a treat.
"The drive from Tallac around Fallen Leaf Lake under trees whose boles form arch or portal, framing pictures of the sunny lake, is a memorable experience; then on past Glen Alpine Falls, Lily Lake, and Modjeska Falls, up the deep mountain glen, where the road ends at the hospitable cottages, log-houses and spacious tents of Glen Alpine,"  a description of this path from The Lake of the Sky, a guide to Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras, published in 1915.
This name on a cabin we passed made me smile.
The hike ended here, in the remains of the once famous Glen Alpine Springs Resort.  John Muir wrote of this historic landmark:
The Glen Alpine Springs tourist resort seems to me one of the most delightful places in all the famous Tahoe region. From no other valley, as far as I know, may excursions be made in a single day to so many peaks, wild gardens, glacier lakes, glacier meadows, and Alpine groves, cascades, etc.
The Glen Alpine Springs is the site of a natural springs turned resort in 1884 and represents one of the earliest resorts in the Tahoe Basin. The resort buildings were designed by famous architect, Bernard Maybeck, designer of the San Francisco Palace of Fine Art.
After carrying our picnic throughout the hike and being chased away by mosquitoes, we settled along the shore of Fallen Leaf Lake...the perfect lunch spot.

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