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The day after our walk along the Truckee River, the smoke arrived at Tahoe and we departed for the cleaner air at home in Portola Valley. We decided to drive along the West Shore and cross the Sierras on Highway 50 at Echo Summit thinking we would ghoulishly see the fire damage from the still smoldering Caldor Fire. Driving down Highway 89 on the west side of the lake, we couldn’t see across the lake, not even from above Emerald Bay. But, the good news was that driving around south of the lake, it was hard to find fire damage.

Once we got over the pass, we started running into burnt out sections of forest. Then it was down into the Central Valley and home to clear skies.