Webber Lake Camp & Z Catches his First Fish.

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While Laura was in Upstate NY visiting relatives, I decided to end our summer vacation by camping with Zephyr, Grandma & Grandpa H.  Our target was the newly opened Webber Lake campground, a property of the Truckee Donner Land Trust.  The lake had been a private ranch and trophy trout lake since the 1870's until it was acquired by the TDLT in 2012 .  After much planning and infrastructure improvements, the ranch area near the lake was converted into a campground that opened August 1st of this year.  We were some of the first people to camp here!  

Long story short, I never got to fish the lake because of massive thunderstorms that were unrelenting until just before dinner.  We went to several other lakes in the area hoping to fish, but the storms kept chasing us. We stayed in the truck so we wouldn't get soaked and waited for a dry spell that would allow us to make dinner.  

​The morning brought beautiful skies (for our tents to dry) and the chance to hike Lacey Meadows.  No trout in Lacey Creek, so we packed-up and headed to the Little Truckee River hoping to get a trout for Z.  You'll see that he did!