Reno > CAL > Reno > CAL

This was a four-hour drive I made fairly often in September. Luckily, it was a scenic drive.

Leaving Castle Lake and Mt. Shasta, Hwy 89 cut through miles of Ponderosa pine stands. I often hoped that we would wrap up work earlier to avoid the 43+ miles of heavy deer activity at dusk, but it usually wasn't the case. About a third of the way down to Reno, you turn left onto Hwy 44 and sometime later, another left onto Hwy 36, and in that way drive around Lassen. The evergreen woods transition into desert sage, and beyond Susanville, it's a golden desert all the way to Reno.