[Miss Ellie & Co.]

EOC Lake Tahoe Camping Jamboree 2009
SEPTEMBER 11 ~ 17

Lake Tahoe is where EOC camping fools will be hanging thier hats and hammering thier tent pegs this September.

Prepare for more fun than the law allows!

There's plenty of water in and around Tahoe. Pristine alpine lakes and rivers, the best of kayaking, mountain biking, hiking, fishing, uber gambling casinos and a great campground with nearby access to all of this and a whole lot more!

Campground:
Tahoe Valley Campgound /Group Site
1175 Melba Drive
South Lake Tahoe, CA. 96158
(530) 541 - 2222

Cost:
$21 per night - pay upon arrival at the campground, stay as long or short as you like.

 

[JsELEMENT]

We're In

Lisa and I (and Penny) are in for sure. Already have the time off.
Looking forward to this one!

 

[jdiane]

If we're still in CA in september, I'm in!

 

[Jet]

Darn, I wanted to be #2.

Ok, we're there; Jean, Dave, Duffy & Schnoodle, 3 Kayaks, 1 travel trailer w/ Dutch Oven,

I'm challenging everyone to a Chili Cook-off, cause as everyone knows I make the best Chili and I can prove it.



.....jeez, I just lost #3. How do you guys do that so fast.

 

[ZOMBIEinvader]

I thought about it but when I read this I said no way!

Given the great depth of Lake Tahoe, and the locations of the normal faults within the deepest portions of the lake, modeling suggests that earthquakes on these faults can trigger tsunamis. Wave heights of these tsunamis are predicted to be on the order of 10 to 33 ft (3 to 10 m) in height, capable of traversing the lake in just a few minutes.[14] A massive collapse of the western edge of the basin that formed McKinney Bay around 50,000 years ago is thought to have generated tsunami/seiche wave with height approaching 330 ft (100 m).[15]

 

[Miss Ellie & Co.]

ZOMBIEinvader, you know you wanna go- just say so. LOL!

This is California - we have surfboards - no problemo friendo.
Should make for some excellent white water kayaking too. ;-)

 

[Junebug]

Why does someone always bring up earthquakes??

Either way I'm in. I won't join the chili cook-off, but there will be some cooking magic going on in my dutch oven for sure.

Just confirming, Gene, we're doing Friday the 11th through Thursday the 18th?

 

[DJEMBE]

Tahoe's good for me

I'm in.

I might have to work that Friday the 11th so I may be a Saturday arrival.
I could stay until Saturday the 19th.

Are you certain we don't need to reserve with a credit card now?

 

[Miss Ellie & Co.]

I'm in.

I might have to work that Friday the 11th so I may be a Saturday arrival.
I could stay until Saturday the 19th.

Are you certain we don't need to reserve with a credit card now?

Senor Djembe - Yes I'm sure. It's a real easy proceedure. You pay when you get there.
The dates and Group Camp have been penciled in for us already.
Just need to send a $100 deposit which will be done later today or tomorrow.

You pay your individual campground fee for the Group Site when you get there.
The fees are collected per person (upon arrival) instead as a total for the group as a whole.
People pay only for the number of days that they want to stay and you can stay for as long or short as you like.
Easy as pie.

 

[Miss Ellie & Co.]

Why does someone always bring up earthquakes??

Either way I'm in. I won't join the chili cook-off, but there will be some cooking magic going on in my dutch oven for sure.

Just confirming, Gene, we're doing Friday the 11th through Thursday the 18th?

Glad to see you're giving Jet a break by not entering the Chili Cook Off - he'll have enough competition gunning for him as is.
I'm all over you cooking up magic in your enchanted Dutch Oven.
I'll be there with all the camp doggies begging for tid bits.

Yes indeed - the dates for this are Friday the 11th to Thursday the 17th.

 

[Junebug]

Glad to see you're giving Jet a break by not entering the Chili Cook Off - he'll have enough competition gunning for him as is.
I'm all over you cooking up magic in your enchanted Dutch Oven.
I'll be there with all the camp doggies begging for tid bits.

Yes indeed - the dates for this are Friday the 11th to Thursday the 17th.

Camptastic!

 

[Jet]

So, let me get this straight. We're doing Fri 11 SEPT 09 thru Thurs 17 SEPT 09.
(not the 18th) at a Group site where it will be only E's and there are unlimited number of spaces and we only need to deposit $100.00.
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[jdiane]

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Um, maybe we should invite a ridgeline to pull me out of whatever I get stuck in (again) when Paul convinces me to go offroading??? ;-)

 

[Miss Ellie & Co.]

So, let me get this straight. We're doing Fri 11 SEPT 09 thru Thurs 17 SEPT 09.
(not the 18th) at a Group site where it will be only E's and there are unlimited number of spaces and we only need to deposit $100.00.
(What's wrong with this picture ?)

Jet - The deposit secures both the Group Site and dates for us.
When arriving at the campground each of us (individually) will pay for the amount of nights (7) that we'll be staying for.
Should we decide to stay loner we can do that too. No problem at all.

Yes - this is a different proceedure than what we're used to but it keeps us from having to fork out a huge amount of up-front-money in advance.

I accept your challenge for the Chili Cook Off senor.
But be advised - they got some real fancy ass gourmet stores in the area for the best ingrediants to put in these stews.
I intend to win this contest!
Can we use the dogs as judges?

 

[Miss Ellie & Co.]

Um, maybe we should invite a ridgeline to pull me out of whatever I get stuck in (again) when Paul convinces me to go offroading??? ;-)

Maybe we can coerce Bill (outofd) to come along with Junebug from Washington.
He's got a Ridgeline and had to skip the Death Valley Trip.
He's due.

 

[Miss Ellie & Co.]

Some Facts About Lake Tahoe:

Lake Type: Geological Block Faulting
Maximum Depth: 1,645 ft.
Average Depth: 1,000 ft.
Maximum Diameter: (north-south) 22 Miles
Minimum Diameter: (east-west) 12 Miles
Surface Area: 191 Square Miles
Average Surface Elevation: (above sea level) 6,224 ft.
Highest Peak: Freel Peak - 10,891 ft.

The Lake Tahoe Basin was formed by Geologic Block (normal) Faulting about 2-3 million years ago.
A Geological Block Faulting is a fracture in the Earth's crust causing blocks of land to move up and down.
Uplifted blocks created the Carson Range on the east and the Sierra Nevadas on the west -
drop down block created the Lake Tahoe Basin in between.

Some of the highest peaks of the Lake Tahoe Basin that formed during that process were Freel Peak at 10,891 ft. Monument Peak at 10,067 ft. (the present Heavely Valley Ski area), Pyramid Peak at 9,983 ft. (in the Desolation Wilderness) and Mt. Tallac at 9,735 ft.

Water temperature near the surface is 70 degrees during August and September.
Water clarity is an astonishing 70 ft.
Below a depth of 600-700 ft. the water temperature remains a constant 39 degrees!
If you were to drown in Lake Tahoe your body would never surface.
In fact it would remain unbloated and preserved at the bottom of the lake.
During the 30s and 40s many gangsters used Lake Tahoe as a place to dump bodies.
Remember the scene in the movie The Godfather II when Fredo got capped in the row boat on Lake Tahoe while fishing?

God only knows what lies at the botom of Lake Tahoe - Only Jacques Cousteau knows for sure and he wouldn't tell anybody.
In the mid 70's he took a submergable devise to bottom and found out.
All he would say about it was... "the world is not ready to see what's at the bottom of Lake Tahoe."

more on that later...

 

[JsELEMENT]

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Jacques found "Crazy Tasty Town" down there...

Lake Type: Geological Block Faulting
Maximum Depth: 1,645 ft.
Average Depth: 1,000 ft.
Maximum Diameter: (north-south) 22 Miles
Minimum Diameter: (east-west) 12 Miles
Surface Area: 191 Square Miles
Average Surface Elevation: (above sea level) 6,224 ft.
Highest Peak: Freel Peak - 10,891 ft.

The Lake Tahoe Basin was formed by Geologic Block (normal) Faulting about 2-3 million years ago.
A Geological Block Faulting is a fracture in the Earth's crust causing blocks of land to move up and down.
Uplifted blocks created the Carson Range on the east and the Sierra Nevadas on the west -
drop down block created the Lake Tahoe Basin in between.

Some of the highest peaks of the Lake Tahoe Basin that formed during that process were Freel Peak at 10,891 ft. Monument Peak at 10,067 ft. (the present Heavely Valley Ski area), Pyramid Peak at 9,983 ft. (in the Desolation Wilderness) and Mt. Tallac at 9,735 ft.

Water temperature near the surface is 70 degrees during August and September.
Below a depth of 600-700 ft. the water temperature remains a constant 39 degrees!
If you were to drown in Lake Tahoe your body would never surface.
In fact it would remain unbloated and preserved at the bottom of the lake.
During the 30s and 40s many gangsters used Lake Tahoe as a place to dump bodies.
Remember the scene in the movie The Godfather II when they capped Fredo in the boat on the lake while fishing?

God only knows what lies at the botom of Lake Tahoe - Only Jacques Cousteau knows for sure and he wouldn't tell anybody.
In the mid 70's he took a submergable devise to bottom and found out.
All he would say about it was... "the world is not ready to see what's at the bottom of Lake Tahoe."

more on that later...

 

[Free_man_E]

I'm in barring any disaster.

 

[Miss Ellie & Co.]

If You Were To Drown In Lake Tahoe:

It's a rather morbid topic, but it certainly opens up some interesting facts. Such as the fact that if a person were to drown in Lake Tahoe and not be rescued, his/her body would never rise to the surface as with most other aquatic environments.

Between the years of 1860 and 1874 early records indicate that a total of 14 people were drowned in the lake.
None of the bodies were recovered when the drownings occurred in deep water.

Many curious stories circulated in the 1870s and 1880's concerning the ultimate fate of those who disappeared in the depths of Tahoe.
In 1872 the San Francisco Bulletin solemnly assured its readers: "A corpse remains suspended and motionless (in Tahoe) at a depth of 200 feet and over, frozen stiff as though encased in a block of ice, and the great pressures encountered in the vast deep of the lake reduce an adult's body to that of a child's stature, exercising a clamping effect that holds the person in a viselike grip, preventing its rise to the surface."

Discarding conjecture and the fanciful, a sound, proven reason why bodies do not return to the surface of the lake is that corpses sinking into snow water, only a few degrees above freezing, do not decompose, as would normally be the case in warmer waters.
Thus gases are not formed which would cause them to inflate and rise to the surface.
It is conceivable that bodies are preserved in the watery abyss of Lake Tahoe much in the same manner as prehistoric mammals are found in massive ice floes after thousands of years of entrapment.

One final note about why bodies never make it back to the surface (of Tahoe anyway):
It has been reported that often times when divers disappear exploring many of the underwater caves on the western side of the lake, that their bodies turn up in other lakes as far away as Donner Lake.

 

[Miss Ellie & Co.]

Lake Tahoe's Nude Beaches

Tahoe has a bunch of very nice Nude Beaches.
(you know I wouldn't take you guys somewhere where there wasn't lots of interesting things to see and do)

Yes it's true - if you want to frolic about in your birthday suit in the sun all day, Lake Tahoe's Nude Beaches is the place you outta be!

Here's a list of them - where they're located and what to expect when you get there. http://www.sfbg.com/nudebeaches/tahoe.php
"I ask you, what more could you want than an even suntan?"