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>> I'm in Truckee
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>Doing /done the Rubicon Trail, like you threatened?
Not yet; maybe in August.
We were walking around the Rainbow Bridge and decided to hike up to the top of the China Wall, between a couple of tunnels and snow sheds of the original Transcontinental Railroad. It's a nice short steep hike over smooth stepped glacial-looking rocks, with some
3000-year-old petroglyphs here and there. Anyhow, when we got to the top, there were a couple of guys in Jeeps. Turns out that you can quasi-legally enter the tunnels near Sugar Bowl and drive through. One of them is, I think, about 1600 feet long. The Brat will bring up her Jeep in a weekend or two and we'll try it.
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ftp://66.117.156.8/CW_snow_shed.jpg
ftp://66.117.156.8/CW_wall.jpg
It's a "gravity wall" constructed for the roadbed by hand, from natural uncut rocks, no cement.
The road is Donner Pass Road, old California route 40, a section of the original Lincoln Highway.
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Bronze marker courtesy E Clampus Vitus:
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Cool stuff.
John