Some interested readers may think the Donner Party was an independent group of pioneers who pushed their way west more or less alone until they were stopped by snow near what is today, Truckee.
One hundred and sixty-plus years ago this week, members of the Donner Party were slowly trudging northwest. They were moving up from the southern end of the Ruby Mountains in eastern Nevada.
Twice a year, in March and September, during an equinox, night and day are equal in length. On September 22, this signals the official start of fall.
There are times in every life that demand a modest act of penance. When you’ve behaved badly a good remedy is to hike from Meeks Bay to Emerald Bay in a day.
Duane Leroy Bliss was a nineteenth-century timber baron whose logging operations helped clear-cut much of the Tahoe Basin in the late 1800s.
One hundred and sixty-plus years ago this week, members of the Donner Party were crossing present-day eastern Nevada on their way west toward the south fork of the Humboldt River.
One hundred and sixty-plus years ago this week, members of the Donner Party rested at Pilot Springs at the foot of Pilot Peak in Nevada near the Utah border.
One hundred and sixty-plus years ago this week, members of the Donner Party had entered the forbidding Great Salt Lake Desert.
One hundred and sixty-plus years ago this week, members of the Donner Party had just fought their way through the rugged Wasatch Mountains (Utah) and finally reached the eastern edge of the Great Salt Lake Desert.
Big mountain snowboarder and filmmaker Jeremy Jones provides some insights into the concept and making of his groundbreaking new film 'Deeper' in a 2009 interview.
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