Wildy Hut
The place
Wildy Hut in Tahoe National Forest, Truckee/Kings Beach area (Nevada County, California, USA), at 2053 m elevation, on the north Lake Tahoe side of the Sierra Nevada. Part of the continuous USA Sierra Nevada cluster (batches 240-356). A historic hut (the name "Wildy" is typical of 1860s settlers following the Comstock silver rush of 1859), in an area of Pinus jeffreyi (Jeffrey pine), Pinus contorta (lodgepole pine), and Abies concolor (white fir) + Lake Tahoe (the second-deepest lake in the USA at 501 m, after Crater Lake at 594 m + the largest by volume in the Sierra + historically exceptionally clear water, though affected by algal blooms since the 1990s + lower-elevation Lake Tahoe ski resorts + Squaw Valley, host of the 1960 Winter Olympics + Kings Beach's Chinese heritage: workers on the Central Pacific Railroad, completed in 6 years by 15,000 labourers as part of the transcontinental line, from 1868), and the heritage of the Washoe people (a Hokan-speaking people, around 3,000 members, of Nevada and Lake Tahoe, Da'aw, a sacred place).
The setting
Tahoe NF, Truckee/Kings Beach, Nevada County, CA, USA, 2053 m, north Lake Tahoe side of the Sierra Nevada; continuous cluster batches 240-356; 1860s settlers, name Wildy, following the 1859 Comstock rush; Pinus jeffreyi/contorta, Abies concolor + Lake Tahoe, 2nd-deepest in the USA at 501 m after Crater Lake 594 m, largest by volume in the Sierra, historically pure water, algal blooms since the 1990s + Squaw Valley, 1960 Winter Olympics + Kings Beach, Chinese heritage, 1868 Central Pacific Railroad, 15,000 workers, 6-year transcontinental build; Washoe, Hokan-speaking, ~3,000, Da'aw sacred site.
