Explore Outdoors: A scenic, even treacherous drive through history Share Updated: 3:49 PM PDT Apr 1, 2021 Share Updated: 3:49 PM PDT Apr 1, 2021
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Show Transcript Yeah. Mhm East of Sacramento. Entering the Sierra is an off the main road journey with links to California s earliest gold rush days. It all writes a story. The story is written on the old Highway 40 over Donner Summit star Hurley familiar with it because of her family s links to those early days of this mountain pass, including bringing the first snow plow for winter driving. My grandfather opened the building, opened the Soda Springs Hotel on top of Donner Summit. The Donner Summit Historical Society has preserved the history of Highway 40 in pictures created in 1926. Highway 40 was also known for a time as the Victory Highway or Lincoln Highway. It was one of the first transcontinental road ways to link San Francisco to Atlantic City, New Jersey, its very beginnings datin
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Driving down Interstate 80 from Truckee to Reno I’ve often wondered about the wooden boxes that hug the road and Truckee River. Some look abandoned while others look like they are still being used. What I found is that these are “flumes” and have been here for over 100 years. But what were they used for?
Flumes have been used around Truckee for many purposes. Early on ‘V-flumes’ were used as a replacement for oxen, horse and mule power, and “donkey steam” engines to transport logs to the various mills found on the Truckee River, Alder Creek and Trout Creek. Flumes were also used to transport lumber, ice and wood cords. But one of the most important usages of flumes had to do with providing power to where it was needed most.
On Sunday a group of ultra-athletes completed a 100-mile journey from Donner Lake to Johnson’s Ranch near Wheatland in honor of 17 members of the Donner Party who took the
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