2014 Eves Family Reunion: 2014

Thursday, June 26, 2014

Weather Forecast

Here's a screenshot from The Weather Channel's 10 Day Forecast for Tahoe City next week. Looks like nice weather.Bring your sunscreen.

Rentals

If you have a SUP board or Kayak, you should bring it. If you don't have any of that, there are rentals available at the beach. Here is a picture of the brochure.

They have Bike rentals as well, just not at the beach location (You'll have to go into Homewood, CA for that. Just a few miles north on Hwy 89).

Here's some more great info for you.

The trails are great for bicycles. Not only are the trails all around camp good for bikes but there is a trail that goes from Meek's Bay (south of our camp) all the way to Tahoe City and another from Tahoe City to Squaw Valley. Every trail I saw said "No Motor Vehicles" so, if you bring motorcycles (Cameron), you may have to drive a bit to be able to use them.

Our site is Group Site 1 (just labeled "Grp" on the map and pointing to 1 - 5). All the dotted lines are bike trails.

The day use area is about 1/4 mile or so down the road from camp but it has a nice parking lot and it even has bathrooms. You'd normally have to pay to park there but your window receipt from camp will allow you to park there for free. That's where the mansion, picnic area, pier and beach access are. You don't have to tell your kids though, you can make them walk, it's a nice hike.

The ranger said that the bears have been quite active this year already. Please make sure that everyone in your family knows the rules for camping with bears, and is prepared to follow them (see the Wildlife page if you haven't already).

Friday, June 20, 2014

A Quick Trip to Sugar Pine Point

I made a trip up to Sugar Pine Point today to get some pictures and some answers. The sites that we’ll be in were occupied so no pictures of them (didn’t want anyone to think I was some kind of crazy stalker) but I did get some excellent shots of the area and camp.

One important thing I’ll say now is this: if your GPS tells you to turn off of HWY 89 before you see the signs for the Sugar Pine Point State Park Campground, don’t follow it. I’ll post pictures of the sign from both the North (coming from Truckee/Tahoe City) and from the South (coming from Carson City/South Lake Tahoe). My iPhone GPS took me through a neighborhood and when I got all the way to the end, it told me to take a road that no longer exists. I could actually see the park but there was no way to get there. I had to head back to HWY 89 and continue south a little farther. This sign is directly across from the entrance to the camp.


Heading Southbound from Tahoe City

Heading Northbound from South Lake Tahoe

The group campsites are actually 5 regular sites together, so group site 1 is marked 1 through 5. Each site accommodates 2 vehicles so that’s a total of 10 per group site. They do have an overflow parking area for extra vehicles with a $10 per night charge. With a bear box in each site, that means that we’ll have 5 bear boxes to share between group site 1.

Bear Box dimensions: 36" deep X 43" wide X 22" high.
A standard cooler will fit sideways on one side and another on the other side with a little room in the middle.

The sites are set up in loops and each loop has a nice restroom building in the center. Our camp is within about 25 yards of it. There are also water spigots throughout the loop. I didn’t spot one in our camp area but there were so many people and kids in that site, I couldn’t really tell much.

The shower buildings are up the road/trail a bit and they look pretty nice. They are PAY SHOWERS, so bring your quarters if you want a nice hot shower in the morning (or at night).

Remember to bring our quarters.

The 2 shower buildings have showers on both sides.

There are NO electrical hookups in the camp sites. The campfire area might have power, there are lights mounted and really old speakers but the only wiring I could see was quite old, so I’m not sure if it works. I’ll be making some phone calls about that (and a few other questions) on Tuesday. That’s an area we would have to reserve in order to use, so I’ll try to get it at lease on Thursday evening and I’ll see about another night as well.

There are several trails that are very nice. The main ones in the camp area and preserve are paved but those that aren’t paved are well marked and beautiful. Bring your camera; you’ll be glad you did.

This is were you cross the street (Hwy 89) to get to the day use area trail.

The beach is really nice and has a large area to play and explore. The old Ed Z’berg mansion is next to the beach and there is a nice picnic area with grass and a pier too. There are several trails right in the day use area, one goes to “the lighthouse” and it’s a nice hike but the lighthouse is NOT what you think of when they say “lighthouse.” I took a picture of it but I think I’ll let you discover it for yourselves.

The water in Lake Tahoe is cold. How cold, you ask? Enough that there are signs every couple hundred yards reminding you of that fact. It's incredibly blue and clear though and I guarantee that there is NO swimmers itch to be found.

Another thing, plan for the weather. During the day it may get into the 80's or even 90's, we'll see. That doesn't mean it will be warm at night. The temperature typically drops around 30 degrees at night in the High Sierra. Today for instance, at around 1 pm it was a beautiful 75 degrees but it's supposed to drop to 48 by 5 am. Sunrise will be at 5:31 am, so it may get a little colder than that. My point, bring a jacket and long pants, and maybe even some extra blankets for sleeping.

Well, more to come soon. We’re getting so excited to see you all!

Love you bunches!

Dave, Alexis & kids

Thursday, June 12, 2014

Check out the updates on the following pages:

Who's Coming
Meals
Shirts

I also added another tab "Raising $"

Be sure to let me know if your info is incorrect or you need to change something.

Thank you.

More to come soon!