Tech Billionaire's Tahoe Plans Rile Lakeside Neighbors

After hiking up a 20 percent grade about 1,300 feet above Lake Tahoe, Dan Dominy stopped to admire the view.

Dominy and the rest of his group had crossed private property owned by David Duffield, the billionaire founder of PeopleSoft, to get to the massive steel wheel and timbers that were once part of the Incline Flume which in the late 19th century moved logs up the mountainside from a mill near the lake.

"We all have seen the photos but you don't get it if you don't touch that lumber," said Dominy of the Incline Bull Wheel.

The Bull Wheel as well as a portion of the Incline Flume Trail, a smooth, level hiking and biking trail that goes between Mt. Rose Highway and the popular Tunnel Creek Road, are on a 16.5 acre parcel Duffield wants to give to Washoe County which would open it for recreationists. The idea is popular with bikers and hikers who see it as an important link between destinations in some of the nation's most scenic country. Read the whole story.