What Makes Lake Tahoe So DEEP?

[@HullTreeCare8]

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

[@wayne-lj4in]

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]

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

[@Gatis_]

😂😂😂😂

[@fleafrier1]

So it’s the depth?

[@Jon-BEDM]

Thanks dad

[@RisitasKEKW]

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.

[@thenaturalexperience2140]

truly is

[@stevenwinterhill3623]

Any snakes there??

[@kellyp5381]

The water is very cold.

[@jamiesuejeffery]

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]

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]

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]

@thenaturalexperience2140 ---- hahaha, could be

[@blackholeentry3489]

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!

[@wrightridersWright]

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

[@thenaturalexperience2140]

@@wrightridersWright thank you thank you!!

[@Deez420]

Thanks for the new knowledge. Very interesting stuff here!

[@thenaturalexperience2140]

I appreciate that

[@SkepticalRaptor]

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

[@thenaturalexperience2140]

i'm glad you enjoyed it

[@NickatLateNite]

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.👍

[@thenaturalexperience2140]

@@NickatLateNite thanks for watching; I appreciate the comment

[@robertcampbell5183]

Great video brother

[@thenaturalexperience2140]

@@robertcampbell5183 thank you!

[@marthawhite2387]

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

[@thenaturalexperience2140]

@@marthawhite2387 thanks for watching!

[@NancyMierzwik]

Very interesting. Thanks!

[@thenaturalexperience2140]

thank you for watching!

[@robertfindley921]

Beautiful lake! Crater Lake and Lake Superior are also.

[@thenaturalexperience2140]

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

[@lazaruslazuli6130]

@@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.

[@HamMack600]

Great info!

[@thenaturalexperience2140]

@@HamMack600 thanks for watching

[@kellyp5381]

Thank you for this video. Keep Tahoe blue.

[@erents1]

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.

[@chrismack5908]

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]

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.

[@crimsonraen]

Thanks for the video! :) I love Tahoe!

[@Crodmog83]

Great video

[@thenaturalexperience2140]

thank you

[@jamalcole1985]

Great video!

[@LongdistanceRider22]

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

[@thenaturalexperience2140]

It would've been awesome if it was preserved as it's beautiful natural self

[@ethanadams8165]

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

[@thenaturalexperience2140]

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

[@gordonsmith5589]

Good video!

[@Delphisteve941]

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

[@thenaturalexperience2140]

i did note that with text

[@Vicente007]

Such an interesting lake!

[@thenaturalexperience2140]

yes indeed itnis

[@1957f100]

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

[@oatlord]

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

[@devilkazuya2001]

Nice vid

[@thenaturalexperience2140]

thank you

[@NoahSpurrier]

Awesome place. Also Crater Lake in Oregon.

[@00crashtest]

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

[@ronkirk5099]

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]

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

[@FrankChibu]

I parachuted into Lake Tahoe by accident in 1982

[@thenaturalexperience2140]

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

[@FrankChibu]

@@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 :)

[@WTFsus]

Can you make a video on pyramid lake now?

[@stevewhalen6973]

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

[@PeteHemdem]

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]

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)

[@TigerDominic-uh1dv]

Thanks 😊

[@BobK58]

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

[@ajearthdude8467]

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]

@@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!

[@AlbertRemodels]

Thanks!

[@thenaturalexperience2140]

thank you for watching

[@pizzadude6615]

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.

[@Mr7141983]

Who adds the first fish to Tahoe ?

[@wiredforstereo]

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.

[@jimwhiting8144]

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

[@Satire-Gaming]

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

[@cameronwillford9855]

What makes Tahoe so deep? Its depth.

[@cameronwillford9855]

What MADE Tahoe so deep

[@thenaturalexperience2140]

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

[@glencurtis2761]

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

[@thenaturalexperience2140]

been there, lake tahoe wins everytime in my humble opinion

[@kathleenhudson8429]

@@thenaturalexperience2140I agree, having seen both.

[@garryferrington811]

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

[@thezanzibarbarian5729]

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? 🤔😲 😅🤣😂

[@gopal_kolathu1960]

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

[@Saphire_Throated_Carpenter_Ant]

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

[@alexandermccabe556]

i love lake tahoe but it always felt creepy to me

[@GetajobNofreakingway]

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.

[@fobbitoperator3620]

Answer to thumbnail question: A LOT of water!

[@raygarcia-pg7wr]

Exactly

[@fobbitoperator3620]

@raygarcia-pg7wr I couldn't resist...

[@ohnonotthatguy1465]

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

[@thenaturalexperience2140]

that doesn't make much sense

[@ohnonotthatguy1465]

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

[@wiredforstereo]

Talk about faults and geology, faults IS geology!

[@rb5078]

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

[@thenaturalexperience2140]

i'd have to agree

[@danholman7105]

Superior is much deeper than 1000 feet.

[@thenaturalexperience2140]

i noted that with text

[@brentmiller3951]

Because the bottom is so far from the top

[@snarkmark2806]

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

[@thenaturalexperience2140]

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

[@user-hp1gf4no6p]

Crater Lake is deeper.

[@thenaturalexperience2140]

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.

[@brucepoole8552]

Water

[@stevenanderson5272]

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

[@stephenolson532]

Water??💦💦

[@thenaturalexperience2140]

@@stephenolson532 water is refreshing

[@jahnj2523]

lake quannapowitt makes Tahoe look disgusting

[@judithmccrea2601]

Too much acid back in the day…

[@trivialinsignific]

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]

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

[@kengregory1541]

Its…. Depth?😂

[@handthing9709]

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

[@MAYBEMAYNOTBE2]

The depth makes it deep🤗

[@thenaturalexperience2140]

true statement

[@stevenanderson5272]

😂😂😂😂✌️😏

[@martinklaus2203]

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]

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!

[@charlespierce3647]

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

[@HaHa-gy5vg]

Depth

[@spacesuitor]

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?? 🥵🥵

[@buckhorncortez]

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

[@Derpy1969]

It’s the hole it’s in.

[@samanthabamantha5816]

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

[@stephenblessed92]

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

[@paul9156c]

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

[@bigjoe8922]

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

[@chuckh.2227]

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

[@thenaturalexperience2140]

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

[@MALMOVMC]

Your mom!

[@josephnason8770]

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

[@satanicmicrochipv5656]

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

[@thenaturalexperience2140]

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

[@satanicmicrochipv5656]

@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]

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

[@satanicmicrochipv5656]

@@kengregory1541 I live in Tahoe, goofy.

[@jameschastain8746]

Living in a van down by a toilet?

[@bryanbressem5026]

So how deep was it???

[@thenaturalexperience2140]

@@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