Its surroundings are majestic and enthralling as well as picturesque and alluring.

On the west Mt.
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.
In the earlier part of the season when these are covered with snow, the pure white materially enhances the splendor of both mountain and lake by enriching their varied colorings with the marked contrast.
[Illustration: Glen Alpine Falls] [Illustration: Glimpse of Grass Lake, looking across and up Glen Alpine Canyon] [Illustration: The Triumphant Angler, Lake Tahoe] To the southwest rise the Angora Peaks, and these likewise catch, and hold the winter's snow, often, like Mt.

Tallac, retaining beds of _neve_ from year to year.
To the geological student, especially one interested in glacial phenomena, the lateral and terminal moraines of Fallen Leaf Lake are of marked and unusual interest.

The moraine on the east is upwards of 1000 feet high, and is a majestic ridge, clothed from the lake shore to its summit with a rich growth of pines, firs and hemlocks.

Its great height and bulk will suggest to the thoughtful reader the questions as to how it was formed, and whence came all the material of its manufacture.