{"id":896,"date":"2018-07-11T14:13:15","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T21:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costello.mine.nu\/blog\/?p=896"},"modified":"2018-08-17T16:15:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T23:15:54","slug":"secret-spot-in-dollar-point-lake-takoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costello.mine.nu\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/07\/11\/secret-spot-in-dollar-point-lake-takoe\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Spot in Dollar Point, Lake Tahoe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a somewhat unknown spot on the lake near the tip of Dollar Point that we took Luce to. It was a good test of his &#8220;Mountain\u00a0Dog&#8221; skills as the trail is narrow and steep. It ends at a very small rocky clearing on the lake. Lake level is high so the clearing was really small. Here are Stacey and Luce taking a break after the climb down:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-897\" src=\"http:\/\/costello.mine.nu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_7307_sc30-400x272.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"http:\/\/costello.mine.nu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_7307_sc30-400x272.jpg 400w, http:\/\/costello.mine.nu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_7307_sc30-768x523.jpg 768w, http:\/\/costello.mine.nu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_7307_sc30-1024x698.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/costello.mine.nu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_7307_sc30.jpg 1145w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It turns out the spot is not so secret after all. We were joined by the local &#8220;Mountain Dog&#8221; who was much more agile\u00a0on the rocks than Luce:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-898\" src=\"http:\/\/costello.mine.nu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_7326_sc30-400x307.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"http:\/\/costello.mine.nu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_7326_sc30-400x307.jpg 400w, http:\/\/costello.mine.nu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_7326_sc30-768x589.jpg 768w, http:\/\/costello.mine.nu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_7326_sc30-1024x785.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/costello.mine.nu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_7326_sc30.jpg 1097w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All in all, Luce did pretty well and even said hello to his new friend:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-899\" src=\"http:\/\/costello.mine.nu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_7333_sc30-400x305.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"http:\/\/costello.mine.nu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_7333_sc30-400x305.jpg 400w, http:\/\/costello.mine.nu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_7333_sc30-768x585.jpg 768w, http:\/\/costello.mine.nu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_7333_sc30-1024x780.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/costello.mine.nu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_7333_sc30.jpg 1124w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here are Stacey and I with the lake in the background.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-900\" src=\"http:\/\/costello.mine.nu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_7361_s30-400x301.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"http:\/\/costello.mine.nu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_7361_s30-400x301.jpg 400w, http:\/\/costello.mine.nu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_7361_s30-768x577.jpg 768w, http:\/\/costello.mine.nu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_7361_s30.jpg 926w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Take notice of the rock off to the right. When the lake level was lower you could get to it and stay dry. Let&#8217;s take a trip in our way, way, way back machine to 1995 and see who might have been here before:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-901\" src=\"http:\/\/costello.mine.nu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_4152_sc30-400x385.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"http:\/\/costello.mine.nu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_4152_sc30-400x385.jpg 400w, http:\/\/costello.mine.nu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_4152_sc30.jpg 727w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a somewhat unknown spot on the lake near the tip of Dollar Point that we took Luce to. It was a good test of his &#8220;Mountain\u00a0Dog&#8221; skills as the trail is narrow and steep. It ends at a very small rocky clearing on the lake. Lake level is high so the clearing was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costello.mine.nu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costello.mine.nu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costello.mine.nu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costello.mine.nu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costello.mine.nu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/costello.mine.nu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":903,"href":"http:\/\/costello.mine.nu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions\/903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costello.mine.nu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costello.mine.nu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costello.mine.nu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}