4th of July in Lake Tahoe | Downieville Classic Recap | E15

After a wild couple of weeks in Lake Tahoe, @pow_bot and @trail_whisperer catch up on their adventures of riding the new Capital to Tahoe trail linking Tahoe Rim Trail to Carson City, a recap of all the festivities and shenanigans of the @downievilleclassic and celebrating the Fourth of July weekend in Lake Tahoe, which also included some unfortunate national media attention around the public trashing of beaches at Zephyr Cove. Trail Whisperer continues to search for a volcanologist to explain the Hunga Tonga eruption and its link to weather, Pow Bot dives deeper into the issues with Palisades Tahoe charging for parking, the lack of public transportation in #laketahoe and #truckee and the need for a shitshow traffic forecaster much like a snow forecaster so people know when the mobs of skiers will be coming to Lake Tahoe. Rate, review and subscribe to #mindthetrackpodcast on Apple and Spotify. Supported by @sendy_app.

 2:00 – Enjoying the summer in Lake Tahoe staying home in the backyard

4:20 – Heatwave in Lake Tahoe, flooding in Vermont – Hunga Tonga volcano eruption

7:00 – Riding the new Capital to Tahoe trail linking Tahoe Rim Trail to Carson City

16:20 – Downieville Classic 25th Anniversary recap

20:00 – The heat on the cross-country and downhill carnage – lots of broken bikes and bodies

27:00 – Marco Osborne smashes himself in the Butcher Ranch waterfall

30:30 – The importance of the Downieville Classic to the economic health of town

34:40 – Fourth of July – Participating in the Truckee 4th of July Parade

37:00 – Mountain biking and snowboarding are uniquely American sports

40:20 – Trashing the beach on 4th of July at Zephyr Cove in Lake Tahoe

43:30 – Crazy 4th of July fireworks shows – San Diego and Lake Michigan

47:30 – Palisades Tahoe charging for parking – the need for public transportation in Truckee

50:30 – There needs to be traffic forecasting in Lake Tahoe kind of like snow forecasting

55:00 – Headed to the Toiyabe again to work on the Toiyabe Crest Trail in central Nevada

57:00 – Riding the Toiyabe Crest Trail on ebikes – doing an episode of PBS Reno Wild Nevada

59:30 – The bike industry is way oversupplied – a great time to buy a new mountain bike

1:01:50 – Pow Bot is having a blast riding the e-bike

1:03:30 – Swan John receives a Sendy send of the week for hanging with the boys