35 miles southwest of South Lake Tahoe and a mere 12 miles outside of a little town called Strawberry lies Eldorado National Forest. Eldorado starts above the snowline to the east and drops well below it as you go west. It is a bit disconcerting as one moment you’re driving along next to mountains covered in snow on one side and sheer cliff drops on the other and then you drive around a huge curve and the snow is just… well… GONE. And you can’t rotate your neck around to find it behind you, because 1) behind you is generally around that last curve and 2) the road is very twisty. And that sheer cliff drop? Yeah, it’s still on the other side of you.
