Two other bedrooms and a full bath are also located upstairs. The primary bedroom features a separate sink area, two large closets, a built-in dresser topped with bookshelves, and a bay window with a spectacular view over the lake. The hall landing window provides a magnificent view of nearby Cathedral Peak, which towers over the lake. The upstairs has a spacious hall landing, a built-in bench seat/bed, and an under-eaves children's clubhouse with a speak-easy window. The manzanita stair rail to the upper floor was custom-built to echo the staircase at the historic original lodge at Stanford Sierra Camp down the road. The office alcove has a peaceful view of the grounds a separate built-in window seat can serve as a guest bed. Also on the first floor is a full bath and a large bedroom which functions as a TV room (with built-in TV cabinet), office, and guest room. The living area features an efficient wood-burning stone fireplace and custom built-in shelves for games and books. Waterworks faucets and fittings, Rocky Mountain Hardware and Nanz door handles and knobs, and custom Hammerton lighting are used throughout the home. The kitchen features Wolf, Subzero, and Miele appliances. Stairs from the deck provide quick, direct access to the Marina, store, and shoreline. The beamed dining/living area has spectacular views out over the lake, and opens out through custom Dutch and screen doors onto a roomy lake-view deck. The front door opens to a stone-floored entry hall with a custom bench and built-in coat rack. It has been completely renovated and features board-and-batten clear pine walls, beamed ceilings, satin-finished cherry hardwood or stone floors, custom doors and cabinets, honed soapstone counters, and custom pale celadon green tile. With 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, it can sleep up to 13. This pristine Fallen Leaf Lake cabin has direct access to the marina, boat dock, and lake shoreline. “My only comment is that it will take some real professionals to decide whether those are living animals like jellyfish capable of self-propulsion or some exotic form of plant life … they’re definitely in the twilight zone.This pristine Fallen Leaf Lake cabin has direct access to the marina, boat dock, and lake shoreline. “I don’t know,” said Craven, contacted by phone the following day. “They are a stationary, colonial animal, feeding off plankton.”īill Craven, a local historian whose grandfather settled at Fallen Leaf Lake in the 1890s, lumbered out to the marina to look at the specimens. “They are gelatinous masses that can grow as large as a basketball,” Peard said. According to the description of the organism, Peard said they are likely bryozoans, because freshwater jellyfish are about the size of a quarter. Terry Peard, professor at Indiana University in Pennsylvania, has been studying freshwater jellyfish since 1990. Kleppe and his crew said they don’t know when test results will be available. “Then we’ll fry them up and eat ’em,” Kleppe said in jest. Samples of the organism will be sent to UC Davis, University of Nevada, Reno, and the California Academy of Sciences. It was chosen as the tree to visit because it was not far from shore. It is one of many trees in the lake, some rooted, that are home for the blobs, each about the size of plum. They ended up relying on Knapp and his underwater flashlight to find the tree. Despite the use of a global positioning system, Kleppe and his small crew struggled to find the tree covered with the specimens. one night last week to take advantage of decreased winds and calmer waters. As the rover zoomed in closer to the translucent blobs the images provoked “oohs” and “ahhs.” Other boats were filled with residents of Fallen Leaf. On board were students from the Tahoe-Baikal Institute Summer Environmental Exchange Program. “Every time we go out it seems we find another mystery,” said Kleppe, of his exploration of Fallen Leaf.īoats gathered around a main boat that had large screen set up to project images from the rover’s camera. Kleppe lives on the west shore of Fallen Leaf and has been exploring the lake for about five years. The mission was organized by John Kleppe, chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno.
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