DONNER LAKE TAHOE 2005 TRUCKEE,CA PHOTOS
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Nice website.  I like the slideshow idea.  Could you make it so all the pics
show up at the same size? (bigger size you had for some of them)  Some were
rather small.

Sure is pretty.  This Ohio boy, displaced to NC, sure misses the snow. :-)
--
Jim in NC

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http://image30.webshots.com/31/6/23..08BhLxlP_ph.jpg
used to be the only road over the pass - I drove this highway over
Donner Summit to go to the 60 Olympics at Squaw, along with tens of
thousands of others. Parking was on the Squaw meadow, protected from
damage by the Army spraying water on layers of straw every night until a
frozen layer was constructed above the meadow.

This is a piece of the Lincoln Highway - the first trans-continental
highway. Parts of it (like photo) are still in daily use.

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On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 21:33:54 -0800, lal_truckee
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>DONNER LAKE 2005 wrote: 
>
>http://image30.webshots.com/31/6/23..08BhLxlP_ph.jpg
>used to be the only road over the pass - I drove this highway over
>Donner Summit to go to the 60 Olympics at Squaw, along with tens of
>thousands of others. Parking was on the Squaw meadow, protected from
>damage by the Army spraying water on layers of straw every night until a
>frozen layer was constructed above the meadow.
>
>This is a piece of the Lincoln Highway - the first trans-continental
>highway. Parts of it (like photo) are still in daily use.

Parts of it in Cedar Rapids, IA are still in daily use as well.  Mt.
Vernon Road on the SE side follow the original route for a bit, with
an old bridge preserved on the east edge of town just off the current
street.  They will be erecting a nice sign this summer for it, to
complement the hundreds of other signs that dot the road as it winds
cross country.  I've actually had fun doing a RT 66 tour between CR
and Ames where I went to school.  Suprising how much of the old
highway is still around once you get off the beaten path.

nate

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In article <34ubdfF4ftl57U1@individual.net>,
lal_truckee <lal_truckee@yahoo.com> wrote:

> DONNER LAKE 2005 wrote: 
>
> http://image30.webshots.com/31/6/23..08BhLxlP_ph.jpg
> used to be the only road over the pass - I drove this highway over
> Donner Summit to go to the 60 Olympics at Squaw, along with tens of
> thousands of others. Parking was on the Squaw meadow, protected from
> damage by the Army spraying water on layers of straw every night until a
> frozen layer was constructed above the meadow.

While we're in "reminiscing mode", I drove that Old Donner Pass Road,
aka Hywy 40, perhaps a hundred times during the winters throughout the
1950s -- still have vivid memories of parking along the shoulder near
Sugar Bowl, attempting to unload gear and get to the Sugar Bowl tram,
while huge semi's whistled past on the narrow two-lane road.

If you're driving from SF to Tahoe or Reno in the summer or even during
much of the winter today, unless you're in a big rush it's worth it to
take the Norden exit and drop down to Truckee via the old road, enjoying
the scenery and the memories of the transcontinental RR and the Chinese
immigrants who built it.

As a modern touch, standing on top of Shallenberger Ridge last winter
(there's another whole story in that name) looking down on the
immigrants' wagon route along Donner Lake, the Southern Pacific RR
snowsheds running around the side of the ridge, and across the valley
the modern Interstate 80, I noticed the tips of a couple of bright
orange plastic poles just poking up out of the snow.  Turned out they
were 7 foot tall poles marking the route of Sprint and other fiber optic
cables -- the modern transcontinental "Information Highway", looking
down from above on all the older routes between California and the East
Coast.

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> DONNER LAKE TAHOE 2005 TRUCKEE,CA PHOTOS
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>

Nice website.  I like the slideshow idea.  Could you make it so all the pics
show up at the same size? (bigger size you had for some of them)  Some were
rather small.

Sure is pretty.  This Ohio boy, displaced to NC, sure misses the snow. :-)
--
Jim in NC

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DONNER LAKE 2005 wrote:
> DONNER LAKE TAHOE 2005 TRUCKEE,CA PHOTOS
> http://community.webshots.com/user/donnerlake2005

http://image30.webshots.com/31/6/23..08BhLxlP_ph.jpg
used to be the only road over the pass - I drove this highway over
Donner Summit to go to the 60 Olympics at Squaw, along with tens of
thousands of others. Parking was on the Squaw meadow, protected from
damage by the Army spraying water on layers of straw every night until a
frozen layer was constructed above the meadow.

This is a piece of the Lincoln Highway - the first trans-continental
highway. Parts of it (like photo) are still in daily use.

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In article <34ubdfF4ftl57U1@individual.net>,
lal_truckee <lal_truckee@yahoo.com> wrote:

> DONNER LAKE 2005 wrote: 
>
> http://image30.webshots.com/31/6/23..08BhLxlP_ph.jpg
> used to be the only road over the pass - I drove this highway over
> Donner Summit to go to the 60 Olympics at Squaw, along with tens of
> thousands of others. Parking was on the Squaw meadow, protected from
> damage by the Army spraying water on layers of straw every night until a
> frozen layer was constructed above the meadow.

While we're in "reminiscing mode", I drove that Old Donner Pass Road,
aka Hywy 40, perhaps a hundred times during the winters throughout the
1950s -- still have vivid memories of parking along the shoulder near
Sugar Bowl, attempting to unload gear and get to the Sugar Bowl tram,
while huge semi's whistled past on the narrow two-lane road.

If you're driving from SF to Tahoe or Reno in the summer or even during
much of the winter today, unless you're in a big rush it's worth it to
take the Norden exit and drop down to Truckee via the old road, enjoying
the scenery and the memories of the transcontinental RR and the Chinese
immigrants who built it.

As a modern touch, standing on top of Shallenberger Ridge last winter
(there's another whole story in that name) looking down on the
immigrants' wagon route along Donner Lake, the Southern Pacific RR
snowsheds running around the side of the ridge, and across the valley
the modern Interstate 80, I noticed the tips of a couple of bright
orange plastic poles just poking up out of the snow.  Turned out they
were 7 foot tall poles marking the route of Sprint and other fiber optic
cables -- the modern transcontinental "Information Highway", looking
down from above on all the older routes between California and the East
Coast.

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