{"id":5321,"date":"2017-01-31T17:51:46","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T01:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/?p=5321"},"modified":"2025-11-21T17:54:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T01:54:32","slug":"wintry-weekend-in-south-lake-tahoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/2017\/01\/31\/wintry-weekend-in-south-lake-tahoe\/","title":{"rendered":"Wintry Weekend in South Lake Tahoe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vanessa, from my hometown of Johannesburg now in San Francisco]<\/p>\n

Ever since moving to San Francisco nine months ago, we have been wanting to take a trip to Lake Tahoe. \u00a0It\u2019s only about a three and a half hour drive north east of San Francisco on the Nevada state line (in fact the state line runs right through the middle of the lake) and I\u2019ve seen photos of friends tanning alongside the lake in Summer and now that Winter is upon us, almost everyone that you bump into is heading to Tahoe to go skiing or snowboarding. \u00a0So, having heard about how much snow has fallen over the past few weeks and with the weekend looking bright and sunny, we finally made the trip and headed up to Heavenly in South Lake Tahoe.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a pretty boring drive from San Francisco to Sacramento and even for a good 50 miles thereafter but as you get beyond Placerville, you start climbing into the Sierra Nevada mountains where the spectacular views of the snowy landscape start. \u00a0The higher we got, the higher the mounds of snow on the sides of the road were and eventually they towered well above us. \u00a0We decided to pull off the main road and drove through a hamlet where icicles hung in front of the windows and the roofs were covered in so much snow it looked like they were about to collapse (and in fact the roof of a car had collapsed). \u00a0The roads were also much narrower and still covered in snow \u2013 it was like we had driven into a Winter wonderland and it was absolutely gorgeous. \u00a0Never having seen so much snow before, I immediately jumped out of the car and delighted in playing in the piles of soft, white snow!<\/p>\n

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Once we arrived in Heavenly, we got our gear and headed up the gonodola. \u00a0Having only skied once before in 2015 (with little success) I decided to take a ski lesson. \u00a0With some time to spare before the 10 o\u2019clock start time, a ski instructor advised me to get off the gondola at the observation deck and I am so glad that I took his advice and made the stop. \u00a0The views from the observation deck are stunning and I grabbed a cup of hot chocolate to keep me warm while taking them all in. \u00a0Keep in mind that the gondola only stops at the observation deck on the way up, so if you do plan on visiting the observation deck, make sure to give yourself some spare time before you hit the slopes.<\/p>\n

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After a morning of ski school and a few trips up the chair lift, I had had quite enough of skiing (I\u2019ve decided that skiing really isn\u2019t my thing) and by 1 o\u2019clock, I was ready to take off my ski boots and jacket and sit in the sun with a drink. \u00a0We had a few drinks at Tamarack Lodge, at the top of the gondola, before heading down. \u00a0We decided to go to the lake (where I could play in the snow some more) and then drove to Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course for a late lunch. \u00a0The golf course looked gorgeous covered in snow and thanks to the fantastic happy hour (from 3 to 6) at\u00a0Brooks\u2019 Bar and Deck<\/a>\u00a0we spent the afternoon indulging in cheese fondue, chicken wings and red wine. \u00a0The sun was setting as we left and we managed to find a spot on the jetty and braved the cold for just long enough to enjoy the sunset over the lake.<\/p>\n

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That evening we headed to\u00a0Azul Latin Kitchen<\/a>\u00a0and enjoyed Mexican fare and margaritas around the open fire pit. \u00a0After a last drink at McP\u2019s Irish pub, we decided to call it a night and snuggled up in front of the (gas) fireplace in our little room at\u00a0Alpenrose Inn<\/a>\u00a0which was the perfect end to our wintry weekend away.<\/p>\n

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Vanessa, from my hometown of Johannesburg now in San Francisco] Ever since moving to San Francisco nine months<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","darknews-slider-full":"","darknews-featured":"","darknews-medium":"","darknews-medium-square":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"News MoLo","author_link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/author\/admin\/"},"category_info":"LifeStyle<\/a>","tag_info":"LifeStyle","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5321"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5322,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5321\/revisions\/5322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}