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| donner summit snowfall history: The Opening of the California Trail George R. Stewart, 2022-09-23 This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1953. |
| donner summit snowfall history: What I Saw in California Edwin Bryant, 1849 |
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| donner summit snowfall history: The Emigrant's Guide to Oregon and California Lansford Warren Hastings, 1994 Published in 1845, this guidebook for pioneers is a reproduction of one of the most collectible books about California and the Western movement. It was the guidebook used by the Donner Party on their fateful journey. In addition, because Hastings' shortcut route through the Rockies produced such tragedy, the War Department commissioned The Prairie Traveler. |
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| donner summit snowfall history: Sierra Nevada Natural History Tracy Irwin Storer, Robert Leslie Usinger, David Lukas, 2004 A guide to the plants, animals, climate, geology, physical features, and human influence in the Sierra Nevada. |
| donner summit snowfall history: Snow Mountain Passage James D. Houston, 2007-12-18 Snow Mountain Passage is a powerful retelling of the most dramatic of our pioneer stories—the ordeal of the Donner Party, with its cast of young and old risking all, its imprisoning snows, its rumors of cannibalism. James Houston takes us inside this central American myth in a compelling new way that only a novelist can achieve. The people whose dreams, courage, terror, ingenuity, and fate we share are James Frazier Reed, one of the leaders of the Donner Party, and his wife and four children—in particular his eight-year-old daughter, Patty. From the moment we meet Reed—proud, headstrong, yet a devoted husband and father—traveling with his family in the Palace Car, a huge, specially built covered wagon transporting the Reeds in grand style, the stage is set for trouble. And as they journey across the country, thrilling to new sights and new friends, coping with outbursts of conflict and constant danger, trouble comes. It comes in the fateful choice of a wrong route, which causes the group to arrive at the foot of the Sierra Nevada too late to cross into the promised land before the snows block the way. It comes in the sudden fight between Reed and a drover—a fight that exiles Reed from the others, sending him solo over the mountains ahead of the storms. We follow Reed during the next five months as he travels around northern California, trying desperately to find means and men to rescue his family. And through the amazingly imagined Trail Notes of Patty Reed, who recollects late in life her experiences as a child, we also follow the main group, progressively stranded and starving on the Nevada side of the Sierras. Snow Mountain Passage is an extraordinary tale of pride and redemption. What happens—who dies, who survives, and why—is brilliantly, grippingly told. |
| donner summit snowfall history: Ordeal by Hunger George R. Stewart, 2013-09-30 “Compulsive reading—a wonderful account, both scholarly and gripping, of a horrifying episode in the history of the west.” —Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. The tragedy of the Donner party constitutes one of the most amazing stories of the American West. In 1846 eighty-seven people—men, women, and children—set out for California, persuaded to attempt a new overland route. After struggling across the desert, losing many oxen, and nearly dying of thirst, they reached the very summit of the Sierras, only to be trapped by blinding snow and bitter storms. Many perished; some survived by resorting to cannibalism; all were subjected to unbearable suffering. Incorporating the diaries of the survivors and other contemporary documents, George Stewart wrote the definitive history of that ill-fated band of pioneers; an astonishing account of what human beings may endure and achieve in the final press of circumstance. |
| donner summit snowfall history: History of the Donner Party Charles F. McGlashan, 2013-02-01 In 1846, a band of California-bound pioneers took a fatefulshortcut that left them stranded in the frigid Sierras— horrifyingly, some resorted to cannibalism to survive.Newspaperman Charles F. McGlashan, who interviewed survivorsand studied the party members’ journals, declaredtheir story “more thrilling than romance, more terrible thanfiction.” His gripping account reveals not only a stark tale ofdesperation but also many inspiring acts of heroism.Reprint of the A. L. Bancroft, San Francisco, 1880 edition. |
| donner summit snowfall history: Historic Donner Stock Trail Milan E. Wight, 2008 It would be a tragedy for the historic Donner Stock Trail to be abandoned. We must use it or we will surely lose it as a great hiking experience. This is the key trail between the Town of Truckee, the Donner Rim Trail and the Pacific Crest Trail. |
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| donner summit snowfall history: Lost Ski Areas of Tahoe and Donner Ingrid P. Wicken, 2020-11-09 At the beginning of the twentieth century, Lake Tahoe and the Donner Summit region became California's first developed winter sports areas. Plentiful snowfall and newly built highways opened up the summer playground for visitors year-round, and skiing flourished. The Sierra Ski Club formed in 1925, attracting members eager to experience everything the mountains had to offer. People flocked to the slopes, visiting places like Clair Tappaan Lodge in Soda Springs, boasting one of the summit's earliest ski tows, and the Yuba Gap Lodge, a pioneer in night skiing. Join Ingrid P. Wicken, award-winning author and ski historian, as she recounts the fascinating beginnings of this celebrated ski hub. |
| donner summit snowfall history: The Big Snow Robert A. Boyd, 2017-03-13 Disaster Is Brewing In Donner Pass...Winter in the High Sierras has always been a challenge, but this time is different. Global warming has spawned an endless series of blizzards the likes of which have never been seen before. Even the proud Union Pacific is reeling from the onslaught.But the relentless storms and equipment breakdowns are only the beginning. They face a crisis at Donner Summit: a passenger train wrecked in the most dangerous, inhospitable terrain in all of railroading.The railroad men, exhausted and short of equipment, must brave bitter cold and white-out conditions to rescue the survivors, in a raging blizzard, with the real danger of avalanches striking at any moment. More than five hundred lives hang in the balance...*****Here is the story of the unsung heroes of modern railroading - the Maintenance of Way - who keep the lines open under the worst conditions, and who uphold the time honored tradition that the trains will always get through. |
| donner summit snowfall history: Assembling California John McPhee, 2010-04-01 At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these trips is Assembling California, a cross-section in human and geologic time, from Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada through the golden foothills of the Mother Lode and across the Great Central Valley to the wine country of the Coast Ranges, the rock of San Francisco, and the San Andreas family of faults. The two disparate time scales occasionally intersect—in the gold disruptions of the nineteenth century no less than in the earthquakes of the twentieth—and always with relevance to a newly understood geologic history in which half a dozen large and separate pieces of country are seen to have drifted in from far and near to coalesce as California. McPhee and Moores also journeyed to remote mountains of Arizona and to Cyprus and northern Greece, where rock of the deep-ocean floor has been transported into continental settings, as it has in California. Global in scope and a delight to read, Assembling California is a sweeping narrative of maps in motion, of evolving and dissolving lands. |
| donner summit snowfall history: The Chinese and the Iron Road Gordon Chang, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, 2019-04-30 Essays examining the Chinese worker experience during the construction of America’s Transcontinental Railroad. The completion of the transcontinental railroad in May 1869 is usually told as a story of national triumph and a key moment for American Manifest Destiny. The Railroad made it possible to cross the country in a matter of days instead of months, paved the way for new settlers to come out west, and helped speed America’s entry onto the world stage as a modern nation that spanned a full continent. It also created vast wealth for its four owners, including the fortune with which Leland Stanford would found Stanford University some two decades later. But while the Transcontinental has often been celebrated in national memory, little attention has been paid to the Chinese workers who made up 90 percent of the workforce on the Western portion of the line. The Railroad could not have been built without Chinese labor, but the lives of Chinese railroad workers themselves have been little understood and largely invisible. This landmark volume explores the experiences of Chinese railroad workers and their place in cultural memory. The Chinese and the Iron Road illuminates more fully than ever before the interconnected economies of China and the US, how immigration across the Pacific changed both nations, the dynamics of the racism the workers encountered, the conditions under which they labored, and their role in shaping both the history of the railroad and the development of the American West. Praise for The Chinese and the Iron Road “This timely and essential volume preserves the humanity of the often-ignored and forgotten immigrant worker, while also uncovering just how important Chinese American railroad workers were in the making of America and its place in the world.” —Erika Lee, author of The Making of Asian America “Gordon H. Chang and Shelley Fisher Fishkin’s meticulously researched and beautifully written book fills [a] critical gap in our nation’s history. The Chinese and the Iron Road brings to life the stories of workers who defied incredible odds and gave their lives to unite these states into a nation.” —David Henry Hwang, Tony Award–winning playwright of The Dance and the Railroad and M. Butterfly “Destined to become the go-to resource about Chinese railroad workers in the American West.” —Madeline Hsu, author of The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority “Deeply researched and richly detailed, The Chinese and the Iron Road brings to life the Chinese immigrants whose work was essential to the railroad’s construction.” —Thomas Bender, author of A Nation Among Nations: America’s Place in World History |
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| donner summit snowfall history: The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate Eliza Poor Donner Houghton, 1911 Eliza Houghton (b. 1843) was the youngest child of George Donner, one of two Springfield, Illinois, brothers who organized the ill-fated California-bound emigrant party that bore their name. Eliza and her older sisters were rescued by relief parties that made their way to the stranded travellers at Donner Lake, but their parents perished, and the girls were left to make their way alone in the West. The expedition of the Donner party and its tragic fate (1911) begins with Mrs. Houghton's account of her childhood and the family's tragic overland journey, and rescue. She continues with her life as an orphan, first at Fort Sutter, and then with a family in Sonoma and with her older half-sister in Sacramento. She describes the impact of the gold rush and new immigration on the area, farm work and domestic work, and her own education in public schools and St. Catherine's Convent in Benicia. She writes at length of the emotional scars caused by contemporary rumors of cannibalism among the Donner Party and offers full accounts of Donner family history as well as the background of her husband, Samuel Houghton. An appendix contains several documentary sources for the history of the Donner Party. |
| donner summit snowfall history: The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny Michael Wallis, 2017-06-06 Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence Finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award A Publishers Weekly Holiday Guide History Pick “A book so gripping it can scarcely be put down.... Superb.” —New York Times Book Review WESTWARD HO! FOR OREGON AND CALIFORNIA! In the eerily warm spring of 1846, George Donner placed this advertisement in a local newspaper as he and a restless caravan prepared for what they hoped would be the most rewarding journey of a lifetime. But in eagerly pursuing what would a century later become known as the American dream, this optimistic-yet-motley crew of emigrants was met with a chilling nightmare; in the following months, their jingoistic excitement would be replaced by desperate cries for help that would fall silent in the deadly snow-covered mountains of the Sierra Nevada. We know these early pioneers as the Donner Party, a name that has elicited horror since the late 1840s. With The Best Land Under Heaven, Wallis has penned what critics agree is “destined to become the standard account” (Washington Post) of the notorious saga. Cutting through 160 years of myth-making, the “expert storyteller” (True West) compellingly recounts how the unlikely band of early pioneers met their fate. Interweaving information from hundreds of newly uncovered documents, Wallis illuminates how a combination of greed and recklessness led to one of America’s most calamitous and sensationalized catastrophes. The result is a “fascinating, horrifying, and inspiring” (Oklahoman) examination of the darkest side of Manifest Destiny. |
| donner summit snowfall history: Desperate Passage Ethan Rarick, 2008-02-04 In late October 1846, the last wagon train of that year's westward migration stopped overnight before resuming its arduous climb over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, unaware that a fearsome storm was gathering force. After months of grueling travel, the 81 men, women and children would be trapped for a brutal winter with little food and only primitive shelter. The conclusion is known: by spring of the next year, the Donner Party was synonymous with the most harrowing extremes of human survival. But until now, the full story of what happened, what it tells us about human nature and about America's westward expansion, remained shrouded in myth. Drawing on fresh archaeological evidence, recent research on topics ranging from survival rates to snowfall totals, and heartbreaking letters and diaries made public by descendants a century-and-a-half after the tragedy, Ethan Rarick offers an intimate portrait of the Donner party and their unimaginable ordeal: a mother who must divide her family, a little girl who shines with courage, a devoted wife who refuses to abandon her husband, a man who risks his life merely to keep his word. But Rarick resists both the gruesomely sensationalist accounts of the Donner party as well as later attempts to turn the survivors into archetypal pioneer heroes. The Donner Party, Rarick writes, is a story of hard decisions that were neither heroic nor villainous. Often, the emigrants displayed a more realistic and typically human mixture of generosity and selfishness, an alloy born of necessity. A fast-paced, heart-wrenching, clear-eyed narrative history, A Desperate Hope casts new light on one of America's most horrific encounters between the dream of a better life and the harsh realities such dreams so often must confront. |
| donner summit snowfall history: SP002: Nevada's Weather and Climate John G. Houghton, Clarence M. Sakamoto, Richard O. Gifford, 1975 |
| donner summit snowfall history: The Donner Party Chronicles Frank Mullen, 1997 The Reno Gazette-Journal and the Nevada Humanities Committee present Frank Mullen's account of the Donner Party, accompanied by hundreds of historical illustrations and Marilyn Newton's photographs of the trail today. |
| donner summit snowfall history: Weekly Climate Bulletin , 1991 |
| donner summit snowfall history: Saving the Donner Party Richard F. Kaufman, 2014-07-28 Books, articles, and commentaries have told the story of how the storm of the century in the fall of 1846 trapped eighty-one innocent men, women, and children in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and how brave men risked their lives to save them. In Saving the Donner Party, author Dr. Richard F. Kaufman tells the story of the rescuers of the Donner Party. During the last two decades, Dr. Kaufman has compiled a record of historical documents and letters from Sutters Fort State Park and the California State Library. He reviews the older literature with a more modern approach, introducing orbital satellite studies with panoramic descriptions of travel routes not seen before. Using historical weather statistics and tree ring technology, he presents a more thorough understanding of the so-called storm of the century that enveloped the Donner Party. His account focuses on the massive effort and expenditure of resources by the rescue parties, involving the progress of the Mexican War going on at that time. Saving the Donner Party presents an in-depth interpretation of the event with surprising revelations that changed the historical setting and legacy of California, adding richly to the literature of this topic and updating the knowledge of the Donner Party episode. |
| donner summit snowfall history: Sierra East Genny Smith, 2003 There are few more spectacular drives on Earth than Highway 395 along the foot of the great granite wall of the Sierra Nevada. In Sierra East, Genny Smith and her team of experts tell the story of that amazing terrain, and its fantastic contours, molded by tectonic upthrusts and Pleistocene glaciers; its spectacular weathers; its amazing diversity of plant and animal life; and the human struggles over its life-giving waters.--Harold Gilliam, author of Weather of the San Francisco Bay Region For those of us who live within the Sierra East territory, this is the 'right' side of California. It is a wondrous place to visit. This book is not a superficial tourist guide to what you may see from the scenic overlooks. It is a real guidebook covering all the natural and unnatural history as well as geology, weather, and water. There are thorough descriptions of plants and animals you may wander across plus information on how they cope with the extreme rigors of the high mountains and harsh deserts.--Sally Gaines, co-founder of the Mono Lake Committee This is the first comprehensive natural history of the Eastern Sierra. An outstanding team of authors, with years of experience in the region, meets the challenge of covering their specialties from the Mojave Desert to the tops of 14,000-foot mountains. This diverse material is uniformly accessible in a readable style.--Frank L. Powell, Director, White Mountain Research Station, University of California, San Diego |
| donner summit snowfall history: Draft Environmental Impact Statement , 1990 |
| donner summit snowfall history: History of the Big Bonanza, an Authentic Account of the Discovery, History, and Working of the World Renowned Comstock Silver Lode of Nevada William Wright, 1876 |
| donner summit snowfall history: Lost Ski Areas of Tahoe and Donner Ingrid P. Wicken, 2020 At the beginning of the twentieth century, Lake Tahoe and the Donner Summit region became California's first developed winter sports areas. Plentiful snowfall and newly built highways opened up the summer playground for visitors year-round, and skiing flourished. The Sierra Ski Club formed in 1925, attracting members eager to experience everything the mountains had to offer. People flocked to the slopes, visiting places like Clair Tappaan Lodge in Soda Springs, boasting one of the summit's earliest ski tows, and the Yuba Gap Lodge, a pioneer in night skiing. Join Ingrid P. Wicken, award-winning author and ski historian, as she recounts the fascinating beginnings of this celebrated ski hub. |
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| donner summit snowfall history: History of the Big Bonanza Dan De Quille, 1876 The classic book of the discovery and mining of silver and gold on the Comstock Lode by the editor of the Territorial Enterprise. |
| donner summit snowfall history: Hiking Lake Tahoe: A History and Trail Guide Suzie Dundas, 2021 The history of Lake Tahoe, nestled in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, stretches far beyond its shores. Travel back in time on more than two dozen hikes, from short lakeside trails used by the Washoe People to all-day trips exploring the abandoned shelters left behind by early mapmakers. Visit the remains of one of California's most violent towns and the ruins of a lighthouse built in the early twentieth century when travel by boat was preferred over driving treacherous roads. Discover the legend of Hermit Isle and walk in the footsteps of the earliest pioneers. Join author and hiker Suzie Dundas as she dives deep into the history of Tahoe's scenic trails. |
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| donner summit snowfall history: Quaternary Climatic and Glacial History of the Sierra Nevada, California Robert Rodney Curry, 1968 |
| donner summit snowfall history: DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: California , 2012-05-21 The DK Eyewitness California travel guide will lead you straight to the best attractions the state has to offer. Whether you're making the most of the illustrious nightlife or discovering California's history in the museums of San Francisco, this guide provides all the insider tips every visitor needs, with comprehensive listings of the best hotels, restaurants, shops and nightlife for all budgets. It's fully illustrated, and covers of all the major areas from LA and San Diego to The Mojave Desert and Wine Country. You'll find 3D cutaways and floorplans of all the must-see sites - including Long Beach, the Golden Gate Park and the Transamerica Pyramid - as well as reliable information about getting around this diverse state. DK Eyewitness California explores the culture, history and architecture, not missing the best in entertainment, shopping, tours and scenic walks, in this unique and varied state. With all the sights, beaches and attractions listed area by area, DK Eyewitness California is your essential companion. DK Eyewitness California - showing you what others only tell you. |
| donner summit snowfall history: Rails, Tales and Trails Bill George, 2013-09-21 A step-by-step guide to secret locations, fascinating people and historic towns of the old Central Pacific Railroad from Sacramento to Reno |
| donner summit snowfall history: DK Eyewitness Travel Guide California DK Travel, 2016-08-02 DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: California will lead you straight to the best attractions this state has to offer. Discover all the major cities and sights, from Los Angeles, Southern California, and the national parks to San Francisco and the Bay Area to wine country, the north, and more. Experience the culture, history, architecture, wildlife, beaches, and scenic walks and drives. Whether you're exploring historic towns and museums or making the most of the nightlife, this in-depth guidebook provides the insider travel tips you need. Discover DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: California. + Detailed itineraries and don't-miss destination highlights at a glance. + Illustrated cutaway 3-D drawings of important sights. + Floor plans and guided visitor information for major museums. + Guided walking tours, local drink and dining specialties to try, things to do, and places to eat, drink, and shop by area. + Area maps marked with sights and restaurants. + Insights into history and culture to help you understand the stories behind the sights. + Suggested day trips and itineraries to explore beyond the cities and towns. + Hotel and restaurant listings highlight DK Choice special recommendations. With hundreds of full-color photographs, hand-drawn illustrations, and custom maps that illuminate every page, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: California truly shows you this state as no one else can. |
| donner summit snowfall history: Skiing at Lake Tahoe Mark McLaughlin, 2012-01-30 Organized ski racing in America started near Lake Tahoe in the 1860s when gold miners rode 15-foot boards that reached speeds near 100 miles per hour. By 1895, residents of Truckee had started the nations first winter carnival west of the Rocky Mountains and soon built the largest ski jump in California. Todays Lake Tahoe, with significant annual snowfall, has become home to the largest concentration of ski resorts on the continent. Places like Mount Rose, Squaw Valley (home of the 1960 Winter Olympics), Sugar Bowl, Heavenly Valley, Homewood, Sierra-at-Tahoe, Alpine Meadows, Kirkwood, Diamond Peak, Donner Ski Ranch, Granlibakken, and Northstar-at-Tahoe have seen skiing styles, sports, and fashions churn through the decades, while now gone resorts, such as Edelweiss and White Hills Ski Resort, echo the memories of yesterdays skiers through the pines. |
| donner summit snowfall history: The Hunger Alma Katsu, 2023-09-05 Supernatural suspense at its finest . . . It will scare the pants off you. —The New York Times Book Review Evil is invisible, and it is everywhere. That is the only way to explain the series of misfortunes that have plagued the wagon train known as the Donner Party. Depleted rations, bitter quarrels, and the mysterious death of a little boy have driven the isolated travelers to the brink of madness. Though they dream of what awaits them in the West, long-buried secrets begin to emerge, and dissent among them escalates to the point of murder and chaos. As members of the group begin to disappear, the survivors start to wonder if there really is something disturbing, and hungry, waiting for them in the mountains...and whether the evil that has unfolded around them may have in fact been growing within them all along. |
| donner summit snowfall history: Skiing Heritage Journal , 2002-09 Skiing Heritage is a quarterly Journal of original, entertaining, and informative feature articles on skiing history. Published by the International Skiing History Association, its contents support ISHA's mission to preserve skiing history and to increase awareness of the sport's heritage. |
| donner summit snowfall history: Weather and Climate of the Reno-Carson City-Lake Tahoe Region Brian O'Hara, Gary Barbato, John James, Heather Angeloff, Tom Cylke, 2007 A comprehensive summary of air temperature, rain and snow, wind, humidity, wildfires, and floods in the Reno, Carson City, and Lake Tahoe region since records began in 1850. This information is presented in text, graphs, and photos, and is supported by explanations of weather phenomena, a glossary, and numerous photos in color and and black and white. Click on the links below to see some of the key pages. |
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June, 2018 issue #118 Pioneer Monument at 100
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©Donner Summit Historical Society January, 2021 issue 149 page 1 January, 2021 issue #149 On January 17, 1847 Wm. Eddy, supported by two Native Americans, knocked on the door of a …
November 2024 issue #195 Donner Summit in the Old Days II
Donner Summit history buffs will remember that Mr. Ellis arrived on Donner Sum-mit at Clair Tappaan Lodge, fresh from Dartmouth, in 1935. He later subdivided the area around Lake …
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The Donner Summit Snowfall Problem II 2. The snowfall in Donner Summit is tracked by the US Weather Service. For the month of March, 2022, represents the rate of snowfall in inches per …
Dislyte Expert Course Exam 2 - origin-impurities.waters
Dislyte Expert Course Exam 2 dislyte expert course exam 2: A Guide to Thieves' Guilds Todd Leback, 2019-06-15 This book provides an abstract system for running thieves' guilds in any …
Great Picture But Where is it & What is it?
Bowl to revitalize the economy of Donner Summit. DSAA president Pat Malberg asked Margie to give a short history of Donner Summit. The ads on pages 3 and 4 are of 95 vintage. We follow …
September, 2023 issue #181 Native Americans & Donner …
the Summit much as the Martis had as did the Washo, from the Nevada side. The Petroglyphs The most interesting evidence of the Martis’ presence on Donner Summit are the petro-glyphs …
Summit Restaurant and Bar
Summit Restaurant and Bar Established - 2001 Soda Springs, CA Volume I Issue 6 2016 Donner Summit Lodge, A Short History Ever since the Dutch Flat Wagon Rd. was built in the early …
Historic Hikes of Donner Summit - Donner Summit Historical …
and Tunnel 6 is Old Donner Summit Rd. Turn left and drive up to the parking area. The trailhead is at the sharp 900 turn just beyond. There is no water on these routes. Crater Lake and Rhino …
Historical Society Donner Summit Launches circa 1954
“Mad Dog of Donner Summit,” the other Donner Summit Olympic racer. Edvi Aro was the first snow ranger on Donner Summit, a unique position. Snow rangers explored looking Historical …
Traveling Summit Canyon Donner
roof “Donner” was painted and on the other, “SL - SF” (Salt Lake- San Francisco) so pilots knew where they were and where to go next. To Take the Historical Walk To take this historical …
What's in Your Closet? - Donner Summit Historical Society
Grey was interested in history and was also a member of Rotary. Grey lived in Lincoln but visited Donner Summit helping build the Boy Scouts' Camp Pahatsi on Donner Summit. He was in …
RAIN-ON-SNOW ON DONNER SUMMIT, CALIFORNIA …
intensity accumulating snowfall at 4° C. Only rarely has liquid precipitation been observed at air temperatures below 0° C, tied mostly to freezing clouds and fogs that contribute insignificant …
Donner Summit’s Scenic Bypass - Donner Summit Historical …
Donner Summit is unique. It is culturally and scenically rich. The wide open vistas and rich history make it a recreation destination for skiing, hiking, backpacking, boat-ing, wildflower and bird …
History Preserved - Donner Summit Historical Society
©Donner Summit Historical Society February, 2013 issue 54 page 1 History PreservedFebruary, 2013 issue #54 In December the Truckee Donner Land Trust closed escrow on almost 3000 …
The view from the crest of the Sierra to the east, is …
all came up Summit Canyon, through Donner Pass, and over Donner Summit. Once the railroad was completed the first transconti-nental telegraph moved to Donner Summit as well. First …
RAIN-ON-SNOW ON DONNER SUMMIT, CALIFORNIA …
intensity accumulating snowfall at 4° C. Only rarely has liquid precipitation been observed at air temperatures below 0° C, tied mostly to freezing clouds and fogs that contribute insignificant …
Rain on Snow – The Basic Science
•Increased potential with ROS occurring within 3 days of snowfall, and the newer the snow, the higher the potential •Large avalanches have released within minutes of rain occurrence ...
