About

My name is Aaron Robbins and I’m the guy behind Blog Tahoe. I’ve been building web sites for about a decade and exploring Tahoe for all 30 something years of my life. It feels kind of weird to be working so hard on another Tahoe based web site. It seems like just yesterday I was building my very first web site ever called RideTahoe.com (don’t try and go there now it’s being used as a “made for adsense”). I can remember how excited I was to be learning html, taking pictures of Tahoe and generally writing about one of the most wonderful places on Earth.

RideTahoe.com was a site whose mission was to chronicle all the mountain bike trails around the Tahoe area through a series of navigable point of view pictures. There was no fancy stuff back in then. Just a bunch of pictures linked together forming, what I thought, was the next big thing. Virtual Mountain Biking! I chronicled The Flume Trail, TNT and a few sections of Mr. Toad’s. It was really fun experience. I got some great emails along the way and even a few magazine feature offers. I’d love to tell you RideTahoe.com made it into the pages of a magazine but none of the offers panned out. All of the editors I talked with wanted me to “finish” the site before featuring it. They wanted a few more trails, a few more pictures and a lot more commitment to the site. Commitment, as you know, is not the strong point of twenty something Tahoe geeks. Of course now, I wish I’d put in the time. Had I known then what I know I sure as heck would;ve. I would’ve hopped on my Bontrager, headed out with my camera and snapped up 1.2 mega pixel digital pictures until the site was done. But, I didn’t. Who knows why. I was a student at the University of Nevada Reno at the time, so there is probably a mid-term or more likely a girl to blame.

I feel like now, with Blog Tahoe, I’m finally getting a second chance. After 10 years of learning and working in the Internet industry I’m finally getting an another opportunity to do something for an area that I adore. I’m excited to get started. After spending the last 30 years, hiking, camping, riding, climbing, skiing, kayaking, eating and driving all over Lake Tahoe I have a few things I’d like to say. Get ready for Blog Tahoe.