One this last day of Spring, we hiked the Castle Rock Loop Trail (and added on an additional loop combining some connecting trails) for a 4.5 mile hike with 650 ft of overall gain. This trail is in a lovely pine forest on the east side of Lake Tahoe.
We went clockwise around the loop, the trail went between these two large boulders.
Distant peaks to the south
Castle Rock
We took a trail to the north side of Castle Rock 
And then we hiked on a trail to the other side of Castle Rock, views looking up at Castle Rock going part way around Castle Rock.
peekaboo view of the south end of Lake Taho from the south side of Castle Rock
Part of the Castle Rock Loop Trail is on the Tahoe Rim Trail.
We saw lots of this prostrate ceanothus along the trail.
I was excited to find snow plants starting to bloom, as I have not seen them before.
From the Tahoe Rim Trail, we took a connector trail down to the Kingsbury-Stinger trail and headed north for about a mile. There were lots of lovely large boulders on this part of our hike.
Tall boulders and tall trees 
We rejoined the the Tahoe Rim Trail back to the Castle Rock Loop Trail to finish our hike. We had some peekaboo views of Lake Tahoe from this section of the trail,
and a view of some mountains to the south.
We saw what we thought might be an oriole.some of the wildflowers seen along the trail this morning:
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