Following History...Donner Pass


They say hindsight is 20/20. I tin plough over notice imagine that's what the Donner in addition to Reed families were thinking afterward inward 1847 after the ordeal they had. 

 If they hadn't followed that dastardly Lansford Hastings in addition to his shortcut that was anything but. If they'd wintered over inward the Carson Valley instead of a belatedly autumn force over the mountains. If they'd tried to instruct simply about sense earlier they went. As they say, though, if  "ifs in addition to buts were candy in addition to nuts, everyday would hold out Christmas."
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It was 4 years earlier settlers would gear upward inward the expanse every bit the political party left Truckee Meadows inward Nevada heading for Sacramento. It would hold out over 20 to a greater extent than earlier the expanse would function the railroad nucleus called "Reno."

 Taking what they idea was a modest adventure to cross the Sierras inward early on November, the Donners in addition to Reeds would instruct stuck inward an historic snowfall autumn in addition to direct maintain to rely on their almost non-existent survival skills to arrive through the wintertime inward that unforgiving place.

 Some would fifty-fifty direct maintain to resort to cannibalism...eating the bodies of those who died...to arrive through. It's 1 of the most gruesome in addition to infamous tales of early on California pioneers at that spot is.

 We're next the path of the Donner Party, straightaway a modern Interstate highway, also making our agency from Reno to Sacramento. On this Nov day, 168 years later, we're inward no danger of getting snowed inward at what nosotros promise is the terminate of the worst drought inward California history.

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 The storey of the Donners in addition to Reeds has e'er fascinated me in addition to hence nosotros brand a halt at the Donner Memorial Park, simply off Interstate lxxx nearly a mile or 2 due west of Truckee, California.

It's a chilly but dry, sunny hateful solar daytime every bit nosotros force into the lot. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 tall memorial stands at the E end. We brand our agency into the visitor's centre to pay our fee in addition to sentry a moving-picture exhibit nearly the Donner Party.

 It simply wasn't inward the cards for them as mistakes, misfortune, or evidently incompetence followed 1 after another. 

 Out dorsum of the visitor's centre is a large rock, against which a shelter was built past times 1 of the families. 

 After the survivors were rescued, U.S.A. of America Army Captain Kearney in addition to his troops came upon a cabin inward which they establish cannibalised remains of simply about of the party. The men dug a hole inward the cabin, buried the bodies, in addition to burned the cabin down.

 It is upon the site of this burned cabin that the large memorial is built.  The rocks inward the memorial, over 20 feet tall, grade the depth of the snowfall that harsh winter.

For us, after nosotros pay our respects, it's on to a much easier traverse over the mountains through the top that straightaway bears the party's name...Donner Pass.

It's a pretty but uneventful sweat where nosotros cheque into the Hyatt House hotel inward Rancho Cordova, cross the street, accept the trolley over to Old Town Folsom, in addition to relish a deep dish Chicago pizza at Chicago Fire.

It's a mutual coldness black every bit nosotros sentry H2O ice skaters navigate the quondam develop turntable piece nosotros await for our develop home.

Darryl
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