What Makes Lake Tahoe So DEEP?

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  • Опубликовано: 29 янв 2025

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  • @HullTreeCare8
    @HullTreeCare8 Месяц назад +148

    Well that's an easy question lake Tahoe is so deep because the bottom is so far away from the top

    • @wayne-lj4in
      @wayne-lj4in Месяц назад +1

      Sir I just, wanted to say ..I friken love how you did that there! But now.. what's wild I guess is that how what you did.. is how wonderfully familiar ways it 'plays..'works'.. But I can't put a danged finger on a one of 'em.
      ..grins an' stuff :>)

    • @dondavidson3440
      @dondavidson3440 Месяц назад

      Or as I was gonna say……cuz the surface is at 6225 ft elevation amd the bottom is at 4580 ft elevation
      , 😂

    • @Gatis_
      @Gatis_ Месяц назад

      😂😂😂😂

    • @fleafrier1
      @fleafrier1 Месяц назад +1

      So it’s the depth?

    • @Jon-BEDM
      @Jon-BEDM Месяц назад

      Thanks dad

  • @RisitasKEKW
    @RisitasKEKW Месяц назад +24

    Jumping into the crystal clear waters of Lake Tahoe on a hot summer day is a biblical experience. I am in awe every time I go. What an incredible place.

  • @jamiesuejeffery
    @jamiesuejeffery Месяц назад +7

    I live in Reno, Nevada. We are on the western side of the Great Basin which stretches between the Sierra Nevada Mountains all the way to Salt Lake City. The main break (about 10,000 years ago) was north and into the Snake River that drains into the mighty Colombia River. The only outlet for Lake Tahoe is down the Truckee River. The Truckee River is a dead end. All of Reno’s fresh water comes from Lake Tahoe.
    I head up to Lake Tahoe about six times a year and it is amazing! If you are in town, please dip your toes into it. But leave no trace behind. Pack it in, pack it out.

  • @13_13k
    @13_13k Месяц назад +15

    Lake Tahoe is amazing. The water is crystal clear down to about 70 or 80 ft and gets too dark to continue seeing deeper but the water is still clear past the darkness.

    • @thenaturalexperience2140
      @thenaturalexperience2140  Месяц назад +2

      i've always wanted to just be apart of one of those expeditions where they send a probe down to the bottom; but I fear I wouldn't see much, except what the mob threw in 🥲

    • @13_13k
      @13_13k Месяц назад

      @thenaturalexperience2140 ---- hahaha, could be

    • @blackholeentry3489
      @blackholeentry3489 Месяц назад

      For about 30 years my ex-wife and I made countless 300 mile trips to the casinos on South Shore. Then, she got busted for "Fraudulent Gaming Acts" and we ended up makng five 600 mile round trips to the courthouse to get it settled....the first time just to enter a plea. Bottom line...The court judge told my wife she was permanantly banned from the casino she was busted in, and told if she was ever caught there agisn, she would be immediately arrested for trespassing!

  • @NoahSpurrier
    @NoahSpurrier 26 дней назад +2

    Awesome place. Also Crater Lake in Oregon.

  • @SkepticalRaptor
    @SkepticalRaptor Месяц назад +4

    I spend a lot of time in the eastern Sierras, so this was fascinating to learn. Thanks.

  • @marthawhite2387
    @marthawhite2387 Месяц назад +2

    I’ve only skied in Lake Tahoe. I had no idea it was so deep. Thanks for sharing!

  • @Deez420
    @Deez420 Месяц назад +5

    Thanks for the new knowledge. Very interesting stuff here!

  • @NickatLateNite
    @NickatLateNite Месяц назад +3

    Learned a heck of a lot & I thank you for that... I've watched Mokpot multiple dozens of times scuba explore this lake, now you've given the science behind it all.👍

  • @wrightridersWright
    @wrightridersWright Месяц назад +19

    wow, I can’t believe how much I just learned and I’ve been going to that lake my entire life over 50 years amazing

  • @erents1
    @erents1 Месяц назад +3

    Lived on the north shore for forty years, it’s spectacular. You didn’t mention the mega tsunami and the fact that the deepest part of the lake where you sat in your boat/kayak will most likely be the location of the next great collapse of the shoreline, Crystal Bay/Incline Nevada.

  • @robertfindley921
    @robertfindley921 Месяц назад +4

    Beautiful lake! Crater Lake and Lake Superior are also.

    • @thenaturalexperience2140
      @thenaturalexperience2140  Месяц назад +1

      @@robertfindley921 I plan on making full videos about both of those areas as well; so stay tuned!

    • @lazaruslazuli6130
      @lazaruslazuli6130 Месяц назад

      @@thenaturalexperience2140 I've been to Crater Lake three times, 1978, 2015, and 2017. I'd like to see an AI animation of Mt. Mazama blowing it's top 7,700 years ago. (Edit): I found an animation narrated by Peter Coyote, but the graphics are pre-CGI and fairly simplistic.

  • @chrismack5908
    @chrismack5908 Месяц назад +2

    I'm curious as to whether glaciation scoured parts of Lake Tahoe. You unpacked a lot of geology into this one! I'm subscribing to see your next one!

    • @thenaturalexperience2140
      @thenaturalexperience2140  Месяц назад +1

      glaciation had more of a role in shaping the surrounding peaks; lake tahoe has been around for a long time (2.3 million years by some estimates), so while parts of the shoreline and surrounding landscape could've been glacially influenced the lake itself got there by different means.

  • @ethanadams8165
    @ethanadams8165 Месяц назад +3

    So there must be at least small degrees of constant changing of the depth and shoreline areas from the plate movements?

    • @thenaturalexperience2140
      @thenaturalexperience2140  Месяц назад

      @@ethanadams8165 indeed there is; in fact buildings in lake tahoe have to meet tsunami specifications just like the buildings in west coast beach towns

  • @1957f100
    @1957f100 27 дней назад

    I lived there for many years as a kid. Winter of 69 was wicked. Attended Al Tahoe Elementary. Moved down to Carson City in 71

  • @NancyMierzwik
    @NancyMierzwik Месяц назад +4

    Very interesting. Thanks!

  • @robertcampbell5183
    @robertcampbell5183 Месяц назад +3

    Great video brother

  • @HamMack600
    @HamMack600 Месяц назад +2

    Great info!

  • @pizzadude6615
    @pizzadude6615 Месяц назад +1

    Fun fact the dam makes it 18 feet deeper when its full. So unless the lake was low you didn't swim in the natural lake but rather the man-made reservoir that sits atop it. The lake is also further west than Los Angeles.

  • @Crodmog83
    @Crodmog83 Месяц назад +3

    Great video

  • @crimsonraen
    @crimsonraen Месяц назад

    Thanks for the video! :) I love Tahoe!

  • @Delphisteve941
    @Delphisteve941 Месяц назад +2

    Thank you for the video.. BTW, I should mention that Lake Superior is over 1300' deep

  • @FrankChibu
    @FrankChibu Месяц назад +6

    I parachuted into Lake Tahoe by accident in 1982

    • @thenaturalexperience2140
      @thenaturalexperience2140  Месяц назад +3

      that is an awesome story; I almost got struck by lightning there on a jetski last year

    • @FrankChibu
      @FrankChibu Месяц назад +3

      @@thenaturalexperience2140 I am glad you didn't! We are in an elite group. I was parasailing at age 15 at 7am, first one to go, 3 minutes airtime BAM - I see a long rope and a boat going away and I am falling. Funny- the only thing I cared about were my sunglasses / the chute falling over me. All was good, I got another ride, I am sure the knot man had 3 hours sleep :)

  • @ronkirk5099
    @ronkirk5099 Месяц назад

    The Tahoe rim trail which runs along the mountain ridge surrounding the lake is awesome for hiking and mtn. biking is allowed on most of it except in the wilderness areas and PCT.

    • @thenaturalexperience2140
      @thenaturalexperience2140  Месяц назад

      @@ronkirk5099 I have hiked bits and pieces of the TRT, one of the best trails in the US in my opinion

  • @kellyp5381
    @kellyp5381 Месяц назад +1

    Thank you for this video. Keep Tahoe blue.

  • @LongdistanceRider22
    @LongdistanceRider22 Месяц назад +2

    Excellent presentation
    Beautiful lake Tahoe should have kept it its building moratorium .

  • @jamalcole1985
    @jamalcole1985 28 дней назад

    Great video!

  • @oatlord
    @oatlord 22 дня назад +1

    "Here's a list of all of Lake Tahoe's faults..."
    So critical.

  • @00crashtest
    @00crashtest Месяц назад

    Actually, the Carson Range is part of the Sierra Nevada because the Sierra Nevada is a collection of ranges.

  • @stevewhalen6973
    @stevewhalen6973 27 дней назад

    I read that Tahoe with its deep fault rifled bottom has and can still produce sizeable tsunamis in an earthquake.

  • @gordonsmith5589
    @gordonsmith5589 Месяц назад

    Good video!

  • @Vicente007
    @Vicente007 Месяц назад +1

    Such an interesting lake!

  • @PeteHemdem
    @PeteHemdem Месяц назад +3

    Been to Tahoe on many ski trips. It's a beautiful place! What a lot of people don't know is the water exits through the Truckee River, goes down though Reno and ends up in Pyramid Lake which is an evaporation basin.

    • @thenaturalexperience2140
      @thenaturalexperience2140  Месяц назад

      Yeah Lake Tahoe is the largest lake by volume in the great basin region of the US (aka the area where water does not reach the Pacific or the Atlantic)

  • @wiredforstereo
    @wiredforstereo Месяц назад +2

    And the deepest lake in the US, not caused by a fault, created by the collapsed caldera of a volcano, Mt. Mazama, a few hundred miles north, also known as Crater Lake.

  • @WTFsus
    @WTFsus 27 дней назад

    Can you make a video on pyramid lake now?

  • @devilkazuya2001
    @devilkazuya2001 Месяц назад +1

    Nice vid

  • @ajearthdude8467
    @ajearthdude8467 Месяц назад +1

    Great video! im a geologist and just fyi the flat-slab model has almost been entirely debunked. Seismic Tomography has shown it isnt there. A new model called the Hit and Run is the going to be the new basis for west N. America Geology

    • @thenaturalexperience2140
      @thenaturalexperience2140  Месяц назад +1

      @@ajearthdude8467 I have been reading about the 'hit and run' model; I want to start bringing up new theories in my videos. Next video where I have to mention anything involving the farallon plate or the basin and range i'm going to summarize the hit and run for people as well as the mantle upwelling that is potentially causing the stretching in the basin and range. Thanks for your comment!

  • @leontb69
    @leontb69 15 дней назад

    Thx. 😎

  • @BobK58
    @BobK58 26 дней назад

    It's all the water that makes it so deep.

  • @TigerDominic-uh1dv
    @TigerDominic-uh1dv Месяц назад

    Thanks 😊

  • @Satire-Gaming
    @Satire-Gaming 22 дня назад

    A deep valley surrounded by really tall mountains creates a deep lake, you are welcome.

  • @Mr7141983
    @Mr7141983 29 дней назад

    Who adds the first fish to Tahoe ?

  • @AlbertRemodels
    @AlbertRemodels Месяц назад

    Thanks!

  • @jimwhiting8144
    @jimwhiting8144 24 дня назад

    Normally what makes a lake deep is when the bottom of the lake is far from the top of the lake.

  • @garryferrington811
    @garryferrington811 Месяц назад

    I think that what makes Tahoe so deep is the water. The thing is full of it.

  • @glencurtis2761
    @glencurtis2761 Месяц назад +1

    The most beautiful lake? Flathead lake would like to have a word.

  • @ohnonotthatguy1465
    @ohnonotthatguy1465 Месяц назад

    Fun fact. They put dye in Tahoe and it eventually showed up in Gulf of Mexico

    • @thenaturalexperience2140
      @thenaturalexperience2140  Месяц назад

      that doesn't make much sense

    • @ohnonotthatguy1465
      @ohnonotthatguy1465 Месяц назад

      @@thenaturalexperience2140 my guess is the faults are connected eventually to San Andreas but I’m not a seismologist

  • @cameronwillford9855
    @cameronwillford9855 Месяц назад

    What makes Tahoe so deep? Its depth.

  • @gopal_kolathu1960
    @gopal_kolathu1960 23 дня назад

    I kinda guessed tectonics and volcanoes had something to do with it, the two being the usual suspects in most geological CSIs 😀😀

  • @thezanzibarbarian5729
    @thezanzibarbarian5729 Месяц назад

    I'd hazard a guess that the reason why Lake Tahoe is so deep, is due to the fact that the bottom of the lake is a very long way from the top of the lakes surface? 🤔😲 😅🤣😂

  • @user-hp1gf4no6p
    @user-hp1gf4no6p Месяц назад +2

    Crater Lake is deeper.

    • @thenaturalexperience2140
      @thenaturalexperience2140  Месяц назад +1

      0:21 I say that Lake Tahoe is the "second deepest lake in the US" right at this time stamp. Crater Lake is the deepest in the US.

  • @Saphire_Throated_Carpenter_Ant
    @Saphire_Throated_Carpenter_Ant 29 дней назад

    Too bad it doesn't have freshwater seals like lake Baikal. I'd have a chance to see them then.

  • @cameronwillford9855
    @cameronwillford9855 Месяц назад +1

    What MADE Tahoe so deep

    • @thenaturalexperience2140
      @thenaturalexperience2140  Месяц назад +4

      well fault activity is still happening; so the processes that made it are still making it deeper

  • @GetajobNofreakingway
    @GetajobNofreakingway Месяц назад

    Well I don't know about lake Tahoe but a lot of people have claimed that I'm really deep.😂 Some people have even claimed that my shit was deep it needed waders.

  • @alexandermccabe556
    @alexandermccabe556 23 дня назад

    i love lake tahoe but it always felt creepy to me

  • @danholman7105
    @danholman7105 Месяц назад

    Superior is much deeper than 1000 feet.

  • @fobbitoperator3620
    @fobbitoperator3620 Месяц назад

    Answer to thumbnail question: A LOT of water!

  • @rogerhuston8287
    @rogerhuston8287 16 дней назад

    I could almost see my house.

  • @brentmiller3951
    @brentmiller3951 Месяц назад

    Because the bottom is so far from the top

  • @wiredforstereo
    @wiredforstereo Месяц назад

    Talk about faults and geology, faults IS geology!

  • @rb5078
    @rb5078 Месяц назад

    That’s the bluest water I’ve ever seen.

  • @brucepoole8552
    @brucepoole8552 Месяц назад

    Water

  • @stevenanderson5272
    @stevenanderson5272 21 день назад

    You made a mistake in the video that totally discredits everything you said

  • @snarkmark2806
    @snarkmark2806 Месяц назад +2

    All of the concrete blocks holding down dead mob guys is tamping down the lake bed

    • @thenaturalexperience2140
      @thenaturalexperience2140  Месяц назад

      interesting theory, but if that's the case, lake mead would be extremely deep 😂

  • @trivialinsignific
    @trivialinsignific Месяц назад

    it was hit by an asteroid, then they dredged it and then they drove about 3 thousand hundred gallons of water there by truck in 1973 - it was named by Haas Cartwright in 1917, after a women that broke her toe on a rock yelling " owe my toe" eventually shortened to tahoe - there are more snuty-toots per mile than any other place in the country except for yosemite - park rangers, lucky enough to get this gig, are said to be so smug they sit around smelling their own farts -

    • @kathleenhudson8429
      @kathleenhudson8429 20 дней назад

      Haha! I actually went there the first time in the 1960s.

  • @judithmccrea2601
    @judithmccrea2601 Месяц назад

    Too much acid back in the day…

  • @martinklaus2203
    @martinklaus2203 Месяц назад

    You never showed Mt Pluto tho. I saw a drone shot of Kings Beach launch ramp looking north and the mountain behind is not Mt. Pluto. Mt. Pluto is directly west of Kings Beach. Still, a very good video. I enjoyed it.

    • @thenaturalexperience2140
      @thenaturalexperience2140  Месяц назад

      you're right; I showed Martis peak cause they look similar from the back and I neglected to get drone footage of mt pluto. You know your lake tahoe geography!

  • @stephenolson532
    @stephenolson532 Месяц назад

    Water??💦💦

  • @jahnj2523
    @jahnj2523 18 дней назад

    lake quannapowitt makes Tahoe look disgusting

  • @stevenanderson5272
    @stevenanderson5272 21 день назад

    😂😂😂😂✌️😏

  • @MAYBEMAYNOTBE2
    @MAYBEMAYNOTBE2 Месяц назад

    The depth makes it deep🤗

  • @kengregory1541
    @kengregory1541 Месяц назад

    Its…. Depth?😂

  • @handthing9709
    @handthing9709 22 дня назад

    Sorry but lake Tahoe probably doesn't even make the top 50 lakes in the world lol.

  • @HaHa-gy5vg
    @HaHa-gy5vg Месяц назад +1

    Depth

  • @spacesuitor
    @spacesuitor Месяц назад

    I had heard the whole region was once underwater. Las Vegas was once an ocean.
    I've been through the desert on a horse with no name. This video raises more questions than answers. 🧐
    Also: Do the fish in there know about any of this?? 🥵🥵

  • @charlespierce3647
    @charlespierce3647 Месяц назад

    There was a really big hole there and eventually it filled with water.

  • @buckhorncortez
    @buckhorncortez Месяц назад

    The bottom is far from the surface of the water...that's why it's deep...

  • @bigjoe8922
    @bigjoe8922 Месяц назад

    It’s a giant hole filled with water that’s why it’s deep. No mystery

  • @chuckh.2227
    @chuckh.2227 Месяц назад

    But you didn't say how deep Lake Tahoe is....?

    • @thenaturalexperience2140
      @thenaturalexperience2140  Месяц назад +1

      I put it in words around 21 seconds in; I should've actually said it, rather dumb of me. It's 1,645ft deep

  • @Derpy1969
    @Derpy1969 Месяц назад

    It’s the hole it’s in.

  • @stephenblessed92
    @stephenblessed92 Месяц назад

    What Makes Lake Tahoe So DEEP? The hole in the ground.

  • @samanthabamantha5816
    @samanthabamantha5816 Месяц назад

    Well, tahoe used to be an ancient volcano, so....

  • @paul9156c
    @paul9156c Месяц назад

    Water. Without water, there's no lake. Why ask such an easy question?

  • @MALMOVMC
    @MALMOVMC Месяц назад

    Your mom!

  • @satanicmicrochipv5656
    @satanicmicrochipv5656 Месяц назад

    Meh...
    Coeur d' Alene makes Tahoe look like a toilet.

    • @thenaturalexperience2140
      @thenaturalexperience2140  Месяц назад

      used to live in that area (in silver valley), I believe you are wrong in my opinion 😂

    • @satanicmicrochipv5656
      @satanicmicrochipv5656 Месяц назад

      @thenaturalexperience2140
      I grew up and own a cabin in the wilds of N. Idaho with the Kootenai Wilderness as a back yard.
      (No, I'm not a religious/political whackadoodle)
      I have lived in the Tahoe area for the last 25+ years.
      There's no wilderness around here.
      How people get lost for more than a few hours boggles my mind.
      The Bitteroot Rockeys are a vast natural wonder.
      In my opinion.
      🤘🤓🥃
      Happy holidays, brother.

    • @kengregory1541
      @kengregory1541 Месяц назад

      No toilet you could afford! What a crazy overstatement. Tahoe’s gorgeous.

    • @satanicmicrochipv5656
      @satanicmicrochipv5656 Месяц назад

      @@kengregory1541
      I live in Tahoe, goofy.

    • @jameschastain8746
      @jameschastain8746 Месяц назад

      Living in a van down by a toilet?

  • @josephnason8770
    @josephnason8770 Месяц назад

    I am a bleeding heart left winger from California. I apologize to the mid westerns for Lake Tahoe being deeper than Lake Superior.

  • @bryanbressem5026
    @bryanbressem5026 Месяц назад

    So how deep was it???

    • @thenaturalexperience2140
      @thenaturalexperience2140  Месяц назад +1

      @@bryanbressem5026 it's 1,645ft deep; I put it in words about 22 seconds in the video. I realize it's kinda dumb that I didn't say it out loud, my apologies