Teacher “Summer Camp”

June 19-27, 2026

Tahoe City, CA

One of the best places I get to present workshops is in the Granlibakken resort in Tahoe City, CA. The folks who run this workshop are fun and they are intentional with their push that this is “summer camp.”. All workshop participants and leaders eat together, usually outside. The area is lush and green…and temps are nice and cool!

John traveled with me this year and hung out with another workshop leader’s husband (we’ve traveled here with them in the past).

Bears are fairly common here and I have always hoped to see (from a safe distance) one. Other workshop leaders have seen them, but I was never that lucky.

One evening a bear made her way into the kitchen of the workshop space I was using. She got into the fridge and enjoyed the milks that were being stored for our coffee breaks. Luckily, she was gone before the staff got there.

On the last day of my first workshop, I got lucky. A bear strolled right past our meeting space and one of my participants saw her. A participant was able to get this photo and video.

Two things: she’s a black bear who has been in the sun enough to bleach her fur AND the man that was following her was not one of MY participants (he was in the math workshop in the next room).

Flowers are everywhere. It’s not stinking hot at this elevation so they don’t get burnt – they just bloom.