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On Assignment in Tahoe
updated: Jul 09, 2011, 7:45 AM
By David Powdrell
I wish I was at the Carpinteria polo field this week to photograph and interview Prince William and Princess Kate on their North American tour for Edhat. Instead, I've shipped off to count the number of planks on the Hyatt pier at Incline Village, Lake Tahoe. It's not a bad gig, but I don't know when I'll meet up with Billy and Kate again.
The drive from Carpinteria to Lake Tahoe always kicks my butt. 525 miles, 9 hours and past thousands of fast food joints (the culprits of much of America's obesity, I believe, but I'm secretly partial to an occasional Burger King junior whopper).
Once at Lake Tahoe, however, life is always blissful.
I've been coming to Lake Tahoe every summer since 1958. As a kid born and raised in Reno, my widowed Mom made a point of renting a little summer cabin near the lake where my 3 brothers and I honed the art of crawdad fishing, raft building, homemade ice cream making and other Huck Finn/Tom Sawyer-like antics.
Then in the 1980's, our family picked up an itsy-bitsy little cabin on the north shore, where our two kids learned to ski, snowboard and most importantly, the art of crawdad fishing.
The deep blue color of the water at Lake Tahoe, especially out towards the center of the lake, is a color that I've never seen before; so blue that it's almost black. I like to kayak out there at the crack of dawn occasionally, when no motor craft are racing around yet. The water is still and silent and I bask in its solitude.
Photographs never do the color of Lake Tahoe justice; it's just one of those deals that you have to see it to believe it.
Here are a few images of Lake Tahoe. The old photo is of my brothers and me in 1958 that my grandfather took. I'm the kid holding the stick.
Oh, and the number of planks at the Hyatt pier is approximately 338. I'll need to go back down and re-count this afternoon as there was a rum cocktail concoction with a tiny yellow umbrella in my hand and bikini-clad women that distracted my initial count.
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