The other day I tried out a great spot to run near Truckee; the "Prosser Sagehen Summit Area". There were snowmobile trails everywhere and plenty of options to make fresh tracks. This is near the area that the famous Donner Party "camped" out for the winter. I think they did all their camping on the East side of Hwy89. I will report back after exploring that area.
From Highway 80 in Truckee you travel 3.7 miles North on Highway 89 till you see this sign (map here). Right after you see this sign you take a left into the parking area. You will see a bathroom and a map/information board here.
I am still getting use to my new Garmin GPS watch and I was pressing to many buttons and did not get all the data from this excursion.
Here is a picture of our trail that did get recorded.
From this point we headed due East over the peak. This is where we had the views of Prosser Meadows (in the photos below) and made our own trail back to another well traveled trail that took us back to the parking lot.
Here is the Google Earth image. I added (in blue) what I think our route back was
Heading out on the well beaten path trying to catch my friend Holly
Me trying out some Redfeather shoes
The 2009 National Snowshoe Champion Peter Fain showing how it is done
Slink and Sonny laughing at their dad who fell in the snow
Slink and his dad wallowing in the snow
Slink and his mom Heidi enjoying the views of Prosser Meadows to the East
Me and Slink breaking trail through some clearcut area that had logging roads dissecting it all the way down. You can see the clearcut area in this photo here.
Sonny and Slink following their mom
This is a great area to explore and has many options for running. It is pretty hard to get lost if you just remeber which direction the highway is you should always be able to get back to it. I will try to add more GPS data after I go back next time.
Happy trails
TD
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