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In Idaho Falls our spring is very short lived, we see lots of wind, rain and snow but you can still find nice weather windows to climb. the great thing is the rattle snakes are not out as much so you can hit some of the more infested crags with less worry plus the rock is usually a bit more pleasent then when its 90 degrees out.

Spring in Tahoe usually starts in late-April and lasts until around the Fourth of July. Then it warms up into the eighties until mid-September. It's sunny here most of the time and for the mountains, isn't a windy place. If you live here, you must like snow! We got four inches at the house (6300 feet) yesterday and an inch overnight, but this is unusual. The snow will be gone by noon, because it's another sunny day. The farther east you go in the Tahoe Basin, the less snow you get, so if you don't like shoveling, live in Stateline or Zephyr Cove rather than Meyers.

The basin is covered in wildflowers during the spring and you just have to go to the higher elevations to keep seeing them in the summer. Swimming in the lake is wonderful in the summer and there is some great climbing, like Lover's Leap, close by. The central Sierra and the Eastside are only a few hours away. We do get occasional summer thunderstorms, but not nearly as often as Flagstaff. (I lived there in the summer and fall of 1985.)