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samnsara

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1. in my youth a few of us decided to drive to reno from

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu Jan 16, 2025, 07:48 AM

Thursday

..wash state and for some reason we took the Donner Pass route and it was snowy as hell. We pulled over with several other cars to chain up and a state patrol started making it was up the line of parked cars to tell us to turn back but we..in ALL OUR WISDOM decided..with three chains on..to high tail it out of there before the stater reached our car. We made it but a large chunk of snow fell off a tree we were under and knocked off the passenger side mirror.

thats basically all i remember about that trip...

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On this day, January 13, 1952, the passenger train "City of San Francisco" got trapped on the Donner Pass. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Monday OP

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