Pic(k) of the Week: Lake Tahoe

Lake Tahoe: a fresh-water glacial lake divided politically between the states of Nevada and California. At a surface elevation of 6,225 feet, it is the largest high-elevation lake in North America.

At 1,645 feet, Lake Tahoe is the second-deepest lake in North America, and, at 122,160,280 acre-feet, the the 27th largest lake, by volume, in the world. ^*

Water color of cobalt-blue and aquamarine. Clarity pristine, in the face of development. Lake rimmed by the mountains and cliffs of the Sierra Nevada range. Words fail, at least here at YFGF, to describe Tahoe's beauty.

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• Photo taken on 14 October 2013, on the Nevada side of Tahoe at Sand Harbor State Park, near the town of Incline Village.
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• Pic(k) of the Week: one in a weekly series of personal photos, often posted on Saturdays, and often, but not always (as is the case today) with a good fermentable as a subject.
• Camera: Olympus Pen E-PL1.
• Commercial reproduction requires explicit permission, as per Creative Commons.