Solo Hiking & Car Camping in Northern California | 24 Hours in Tahoe

Join me as I do a solo trip to Tahoe, go on a few hikes, watch the sunrise, cook, and car camp. :)

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0:00 Intro
0:16 Cooking lunch
3:55 Driving
4:36 Hike - Desolation Wilderness
11:20 Snake
12:50 Car camping
13:52 Tahoe sunrise & cooking breakfast
16:21 Hike
16:52 Beach
17:59 byeeee

[steigmic]

That looks awesome. Tahoe forest is now on the agenda

[estephenson]

Hey Kate, great vlog and thanks for sharing! Your Tahoe journey gave me flash backs to when I had to take furlough from my corporate life and had decided to solo and camp around. Lake Tahoe was my second to last destination before SF and eventually back to AZ. I think I’m long overdue for another roadtrip! Emerald bay has such an amazing view of the lake, so great choice. FYI, if you do it again, on the very tip of the peninsula/eagle point and on top of that hill, there’s a picnic table. It makes for a great breakfast stop. It’s through a campsite so unless there’s someone that knows about it, it’s pretty secluded.

Safe travels and keep sharing!

Your AZ neighbor, E.

[itsaboutfam]

California definitely has some beautiful places if you're someone who enjoys the outdoors. Watching videos like yours if people camping, hiking and trail driving makes me envious of the spectacular scenery that the West coast generally has to offer.

My time in Oregon years ago is what made ke fall in love with everything nature.

Great video.. looking forward to your future adventures 👍

[raph]

That lake looked so serene. Great video as always!

[ervinslens]

Outstanding solo adventure, this looks and feels amazing! Absolutely amazing!

[RicardoRoams]

Great video. I live in Southern California and did a lot of backpacking in the Sierra's in the 70's and early 80's. I suffered from altitude sickness on my early trips. What worked for me was to train harder than normal when I knew I was going on a backpacking trip. I also tried to get to the trailhead the afternoon before and sleep in my car to try and acclimate to altitude for at least one night. If I went from sea level where I live to 10, 000 feet by the end of the first day's hike I would often have problems. I'd also have high quality sunglasses. Squinting invariably gave me a headache. For me, most important thing was to stay hydrated. When you're hiking, especially if it's cold, you have a tendency to not drink as often as your should. I would drink a lot before I started out on the hike and as much as possible during the hike. That was a huge factor for me. And of course I always had plenty of extra strength Tylenol for the inevitable headache I would get. Sometimes I'd be out backpacking for 2 weeks at a time so it was important for me to control any altitude sickness as best as I could. After the second day of my backpacking trip I was well acclimated. Any headache was gone and I was fine. Again, staying well hydrated was the key for me. Good luck and safe travels.

[laurynwilkinson]

Hi Kate! I’m so glad I came across your channel. Your videos are beautifully put together and motivate me to get out and adventure more 😊 loved watching this and looking forward to future videos!

[zephaniahmarion]

I love car VanLife because you can stealth camp by the beaches.

[mddell]

Altitude changes air pressure and so does the weather (high/low pressure systems) - isobars.
Phone may have pressure info, 1000 hPa (Hectopascal) also known as Barometric pressure.
Some people get bone aches when the air pressure drops, so they know bad weather is on its way.
Unfortunately the phone needs network to get the info so not so useful when out of range.

[snackheist]

4:43 LMAO
14:52 ohmygoodness that's hecking beautiful
16:54 that spot and the water look incredible...
thanks for the upload and taking us along :)

[오조이-gk]

Hi Kate, i really enjoyed ur video. Thank u for showing beautiful landscape. I will look forward to next video. Take care~~^^

[parsifal]

Great quality videos, greetings from Scandinavia. I studied in San Diego for some years and visited Lake Tahoe with some friends at winter during that period, great to see LT during summer. All the best!

[muuduu]

Happy Belated Birthday! Definitely got motivated, might try out my first solo camping next weekend

[treytomas]

California gets a bad rep but nature-wise it's a top 3 state.

[SparkleNatsu]

I passed by Lake Tahoe yesterday and it was abosolutely stunning! Looking forward to your next adventure :)

[loopyxo]

Subscribed. Enjoyed all your videos. Hope you start posting more frequently.

[Max]

$6 per gallon. wish it was that cheap here! nice video <3

[zephaniahmarion]

Farmers let their cows graze in the national forest and they have bells on them and the bears and mountain lions follow the bells so they might think you're a cow and follow you having bells on.

[montyh]

Nice video! I’m with my Mazda 3 as well but hatchback. But I’m 6 foot tall and I can’t do the same way as yours 😢

[arielzshell]

Hello, I also love camping and hiking
I live in the Bay Area
Let me know if you want to meet up sometime we can hike together