English (Translate this text in English): Mark Twain wrote: " but seriously a Washoe wind is by no means a trifling matter. It blows flimsy houses down, lifts shingle roofs occasionally, rolls up tin ones like sheet music, now and then blows a stage coach over and spills the passengers; and tradition says the reason there are so many bald people there, is, that the wind blows the hair off their heads while they are looking skyward after their hats"

Washoe lake is a relative small lake close to Tahoe lake where you can kite as early as March 15th till late November.

Winds are very gusty and almost every day it picks up to 20 mph with certain days gusts up to 40mph. Unlike the clear blue icecold water of Tahoe the water of washoe lake is brown and murky but clean and warm. During the summer the water gets very hot and may recede a lot.

Mark Twain wrote: " but seriously a Washoe wind is by no means a trifling matter. It blows flimsy houses down, lifts shingle roofs occasionally, rolls up tin ones like sheet music, now and then blows a stage coach over and spills the passengers; and tradition says the reason there are so many bald people there, is, that the wind blows the hair off their heads while they are looking skyward after their hats"

Washoe lake is a relative small lake close to Tahoe lake where you can kite as early as March 15th till late November.

Winds are very gusty and almost every day it picks up to 20 mph with certain days gusts up to 40mph. Unlike the clear blue icecold water of Tahoe the water of washoe lake is brown and murky but clean and warm. During the summer the water gets very hot and may recede a lot.

English (Translate this text in English): Mark Twain wrote: " but seriously a Washoe wind is by no means a trifling matter. It blows flimsy houses down, lifts shingle roofs occasionally, rolls up tin ones like sheet music, now and then blows a stage coach over and spills the passengers; and tradition says the reason there are so many bald people there, is, that the wind blows the hair off their heads while they are looking skyward after their hats"

Washoe lake is a relative small lake close to Tahoe lake where you can kite as early as March 15th till late November.

Winds are very gusty and almost every day it picks up to 20 mph with certain days gusts up to 40mph. Unlike the clear blue icecold water of Tahoe the water of washoe lake is brown and murky but clean and warm. During the summer the water gets very hot and may recede a lot.

English (Translate this text in English): Mark Twain wrote: " but seriously a Washoe wind is by no means a trifling matter. It blows flimsy houses down, lifts shingle roofs occasionally, rolls up tin ones like sheet music, now and then blows a stage coach over and spills the passengers; and tradition says the reason there are so many bald people there, is, that the wind blows the hair off their heads while they are looking skyward after their hats"

Washoe lake is a relative small lake close to Tahoe lake where you can kite as early as March 15th till late November.

Winds are very gusty and almost every day it picks up to 20 mph with certain days gusts up to 40mph. Unlike the clear blue icecold water of Tahoe the water of washoe lake is brown and murky but clean and warm. During the summer the water gets very hot and may recede a lot.

English (Translate this text in English): Mark Twain wrote: " but seriously a Washoe wind is by no means a trifling matter. It blows flimsy houses down, lifts shingle roofs occasionally, rolls up tin ones like sheet music, now and then blows a stage coach over and spills the passengers; and tradition says the reason there are so many bald people there, is, that the wind blows the hair off their heads while they are looking skyward after their hats"

Washoe lake is a relative small lake close to Tahoe lake where you can kite as early as March 15th till late November.

Winds are very gusty and almost every day it picks up to 20 mph with certain days gusts up to 40mph. Unlike the clear blue icecold water of Tahoe the water of washoe lake is brown and murky but clean and warm. During the summer the water gets very hot and may recede a lot.

Distance to a city Take a car

Access time Instant access (< 5min)

Easy to find? Easy to find

Public access? Public access

Special access No access issues