Tallac towers its nearly 10,000 feet into the sea of the upper air, flanked on the south by the lesser noble and majestic Cathedral Peak. Its surroundings are majestic and enthralling as well as picturesque and alluring.
In elevation it is some 80 feet above Lake Tahoe, thus giving it an altitude of 6300 feet.Īt the upper end, near Fallen Leaf Lodge, under the cliffs it has a depth of over 380 feet, but it becomes much shallower at the northern or lower end near the outlet. The color of the water is as richly blue as is Tahoe itself, and there is the same suggestion of an emerald ring around it, as in the larger Lake, though this ring is neither so wide nor so highly colored. It is shaped more like a cork-sole, as if cut out of the solid rock, filled up with a rich indigo-blue fluid, and then made extra beautiful and secluded with a rich tree and plant growth on every slope that surrounds it. Tallac, every one instantly notices its resemblance to the imprint of a human foot. Some people have thought it was named from its shape, but this cannot be, for, from the summit of Mt. Why it is called Fallen Leaf is fully explained in the chapter on Indian Legends. Fallen Leaf Lake is a noble body of water, three and a half miles long and about one mile across.
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