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Lake Tahoe Events: Winter 2011
Dec. 2nd - 4th 2011
Festival of Trees at Mont Bleu Casino - Lake Tahoe
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www.festivaloftreeslaketahoe.org
Sola Rosa / Ski Resort Employee Winter Welcome Party
Dec 03, 2011
Tickets: $7 At The Door, $5 Locals, Free To Ski Resort Employees
Blu Nightclub | Doors at 9:00pm, 21+
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Lake Tahoe Adventure Film Festival
Dec 10, 2011
Tickets: $20 Advance, $25 Day Of Show (Plus Tax & Fees)
Doors at 6:30pm, Show at 7:30pm
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UFC 140
Dec 10, 2011
Free Live Viewing
The Zone Sports Bar, 7:00pm
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Daniel Tosh
Dec 16, 2011
Tickets: $45/$55 (Plus Tax & Fees)
Doors at 8:00pm, Show at 9:00pm
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Daniel Tosh
Dec 17, 2011
Tickets: $45/$55 (Plus Tax & Fees)
Doors at 8:00pm, Show at 9:00pm
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UFC 141
Dec 30, 2011
Free Live Viewing
The Zone Sports Bar
7:00pm
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The Cataracs
Dec 30, 2011
Tickets: $20 GA (Plus Tax & Fees)
Doors at 8:00pm, Show at 9:00pm
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New Years Eve Pool Party
Dec 31, 2011
Tickets: $75 Advance, $100 Dec 30 & 31 (Plus Tax & Fees)
From 10pm til dawn anything goes.
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Lake Tahoe Facts:
The Lake Tahoe Basin was formed by geologic block (normal) faulting about 2 to 3 million years ago. A geologic block fault is a fracture in the Earth's crust causing blocks of land to move up or down. Uplifted blocks created the Carson Range on the east and the Sierra Nevada on the west. Down-dropped blocks created the Lake Tahoe Basin in between. Some of the highest peaks of the Lake Tahoe Basin that formed during this process were Freel Peak at 10,891 ft (3,320 m), Monument Peak at 10,067 ft (3,068 m) (the present Heavenly Valley Ski Area), Pyramid Peak at 9,983 ft (3,043 m) (in the Desolation Wilderness), and Mt. Tallac at 9,735 ft (2,967 m).
Snow, rain, and streams filled the southern and lowest part of the basin, forming the ancestral Lake Tahoe. Modern Lake Tahoe was shaped and landscaped by the scouring glaciers during the Ice Age (the Great Ice Age began a million or more years ago). Many streams flow into Lake Tahoe, but the lake is drained only by the Truckee River, which flows northeast through Reno and into Pyramid Lake in Nevada.
Lake Tahoe is the second deepest lake in the United
States and
the tenth deepest in the world, with a maximum depth measured at
1,645
ft (501 m), average depth of 1,000 ft (305 m). 
Crater
Lake in Oregon is the deepest lake (1,949 ft or 594 m) in
the United
States. Please Note that the
depth
of Lake Tahoe changes every day as the lake level changes. The
deepest
measurement from the 1998 bathymetric survey was 1,637 ft (499
m) deep.
The depth of Lake Tahoe depends on the height it is measured
from; some
measurements use sea level as a base reference, others use
different points
of reference. The appropriate reference, or datum, for Lake
Tahoe's depth
is still being debated. Therefore the measured depth of a lake
is only
preliminary data and may change.
Lake Tahoe is about 22 mi (35 km) long and l2 mi (19 km) wide and has 72 mi (116 km) of shoreline and a surface area of 191 mi2 (495 km2). The floor of the Lake Tahoe Basin is at an elevation of about 4,580 ft (1,396 m), which is lower than the surface of the Carson Valley to the east! With an average surface elevation of 6,225 ft (1,897 m) above sea level, Lake Tahoe is the highest lake of its size in the United States.
The water temperature near the surface generally cools to 40 to 50oF (4.5 to 10oC) during February and March and warms to 65 to 70oF (18 to 21oC) during August and September. Below a depth of 600 to 700 ft (183 to 213 m), the water temperature remains a constant 39oF (4.0oC).
Information provided by USGS.