They opened Mormon Immigrant Trail from Pollock Pines to H-88 the two times I saw H-50 blocked 20 some odd years ago. Took them a while to plow it, as it's normally closed in the winter.Yes Pioneer Trail was that parallel detour that had to be opened to replace US 50. The landslide was about 10? miles west of Echo Summit.
Donner Summit is the highest point on modern I -80. Where the eastbound rest area is.
Donner Pass, old US40 is parallel to new I-80 and a mile south of it. Now just a scenic 2 lane winding county secondary road. Still where the transcontinental railroad crosses the summit. And the UC snow reporting station is there, at Norden.
You're right, the proper name for that detour is Mormon Immigrant Trail.They opened Mormon Immigrant Trail from Pollock Pines to H-88 the two times I saw H-50 blocked 20 some odd years ago. Took them a while to plow it, as it's normally closed in the winter.
I like it, because it made Kirkwood a short trip from Placerville. Otherwise it was a much longer drive to get to Kirkwood by H-49 to H-88...
I'm inclined to think that is a disgruntled employee.If you look closely, can you spot anything he did right? Nope, me either...
In the trucking industry? How could that be? Oh wait that's pretty much all of us. Nevermind.I'm inclined to think that is a disgruntled employee.
Amazon truck. Not a surprise. They pay almost nothing and will hire anyone.What happens when you ignore the many signs and flashing lights on a tiny bridge.
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I've read about that. I have a book from the early 1960's that details the history of Donner Pass from from pre-white man to 1963 or 1964. There are pictures of the Donner Summit/US40 bridge and various plows/blowers in 16-25' of snow.You're right, the proper name for that detour is Mormon Immigrant Trail.
I thought I remembered that when the bulldozers met in the middle they said they were above so many layers of ice and snow that they were 12 ft above the pavement. But that seems so incredible that I didn't mention it above. Do you remember what was in the news at the time?
More Sierra storms trivia - when I was a little kid I remember the passenger train from the east, the City of San Francisco, disappeared in 1952. It was 3 days before rescuers reached it. A tiny avalanche had blocked its forward motion and it was snowed in so badly that it couldn't back up. Finally the storm let up and US-40 got plowed so that the passengers could walk out to the highway. To a little kid the breathless news updates seemed like the sinking of the Titantic or something!