Hiking Enthusiasts Enjoy History, Spectacular Views and Lunch on Emigrant Trails on Donner Summit during Donner Party Hike.News Editors & Travel/Entertainment Writers TRUCKEE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 19, 2002 The 10th Annual Donner Party Donner Party, group of emigrants to California who in the winter of 1846–47 met with one of the most famous tragedies in Western history. The California-bound families were mostly from Illinois and Iowa, and most prominent among them were the two Donner Hike will be held on October 5 & 6, 2002 in Truckee, California Truckee is an incorporated town in Nevada County, California, United States. The population was 13,864 at the 2000 census. Origin Of Name Truckee was named after the Paiute chief. The chief's real name was not Truckee, it was Winnemuca. . These guided hikes provide participants with beautiful views and a variety of emigrant EMIGRANT. One who quits his country for any lawful reason, with a design to settle elsewhere, and who takes his family and property, if he has any, with him. Vatt. b. 1, c. 19, Sec. 224. and Donner Party history. On Saturday, participants can choose from five different interpretive hikes led by experienced and knowledgeable guides who will provide historical information along the way. The Saturday hikes are designed to accommodate a wide range of athletic abilities and interests. Hikers meet at Donner Ski Ranch on Highway 40. On Sunday, activities include two short walks with detailed information about the Donner Party's encampment, Murphy's Cabin Site, entrance to the museum and a historical movie. Hikers meet at Donner Camp Picnic Area (at Alder alder (ôl`dər), name for deciduous trees and shrubs of the genus Alnus of the family Betulaceae (birch family), widely distributed, especially in mountainous and moist areas of the north temperate zone and in the Andes. Creek) and then need to provide their own transportation to the Donner Memorial State Park Donner Memorial State Park is a state park located near Truckee, California. The park is named after the ill-fated Donner Party and contains a museum and monument to them. . Early registration rates are $20 for one-day or $35 for both days until September Until September is a 1984 romantic drama set in France. It stars Karen Allen as an American tourist in Paris who falls in love with a married Frenchman (Thierry Lhermitte). External links 20th. The cost is $23 per day or $40 for both days if registration is received after September 20th. Sign up for both days and receive a commemorative T-shirt for free. Lunch is provided with all hikes. A "Community Social" will be held on Saturday night, October 5 at the Truckee Community Center. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for dessert and beverages; historical presentations at 7:30 p.m. A contemporary interpretation of the 1844 Stephens-Townsend-Murphy Party's trail has been added to a Saturday hike that is rich in emigrant and railroad history. Recent scientific analysis of emigrant diaries and accounts found geographic similarities that contradict the historically accepted route of this first successful emigrant group. Donner Party Hike guides familiar with the new research will combine both the originally accepted route via Old Dutch Old Dutch n. Old Low Franconian. Flat Road and the new interpretation on the same hike. Other hikes include the Dutch Flat Road hike which visits the famous China Wall, a stone railroad passage built by Chinese migrants in the1860's; a six-mile round trip hike up to Roller Pass via the Pacific Crest Trail The Pacific Crest Trail (also known as the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail) is a long-distance mountain hiking and equestrian trail that runs from the United States border with Mexico to its border with Canada and follows the highest portion of the Sierra Nevada and and the Mount Judah Loop; and a strenuous four to six-hour trek through Emigrant Canyon up Coldstream Pass to the Pacific Crest Trail. The Saturday night "Community Social" featuring presentations by historians includes coffee and dessert and is $12 for adults; $8 for children. For more information, contact the Truckee Donner Chamber of Commerce at (530) 587-2757 or visit www.truckee.com. |
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