Pyramid Lake, Nevada

Posted by Karen on 03-Oct-2009

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When I drove past Pyramid Lake back in August, I said that I need to come back another time and check out the place more.  So, I went home and figured out how to get a camping reservation and then picked this weekend, the weekend of the full moon, to camp at Pyramid Lake. This weekend arrives and the weather forecast is calling for an early winter storm with snow in Reno (30 miles away from the lake)–so much for a beautiful autumn night under the full moon.  I decide to head up anyways and see how the weather plays out.  I take the Henness Pass back country road that I’d noticed when stopping at Kyburz Flat on my way north the other month. It turns out to be an easy, albeit unexciting, dirt road that takes you into Verdi, Nevada. I arrive at Pyramid Lake and it’s a very different scene that the one I saw last visit.  They wind is howling, waves are crashing on the shore, the clouds are swiftly moving and eventually the rain breaks loose.  But the beautiful thing about the rain is that is often times leaves you rainbows when it is done and I was rewarded with a double rainbow over the lake.  After the rainbows, I watch the thermometer drop 30 degrees in 30 minutes and the sun hasn’t even set yet! I decide to head home instead of spending the night hunkered down in the SUV against the cold and wind. Call me wimpy but it just didn’t sound like a fun evening anymore.