{"id":10234,"date":"2025-08-11T09:32:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T16:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=10234"},"modified":"2025-08-11T09:32:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T16:32:34","slug":"aint-no-party-like-a-donner-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2025\/08\/11\/aint-no-party-like-a-donner-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Ain&#8217;t No Party Like A Donner Party\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We&#8217;ve long been intrigued by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donner_Pass\">Donner Pass<\/a>\u2014named after the ill-fated (as in, cannibal) <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donner_Party\">expedition<\/a> that became stuck there, and which the transcontinental railroad was able to surmount through immense skill, effort, &amp; will. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hen&#8217;s buddy Peter had previously hiked the 3-mille trail that now runs where the original rails once lay, and on Saturday the three of us made the long drive (nearly all the way to Lake Tahoe!) to hike it ourselves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Donner1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Donner1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Donner1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Donner1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Donner1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As you can see in our <a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/VXyur3gFUuPmNuGh9\">gallery<\/a>, we enjoyed the immense tunnels &amp; snow sheds, popping out perodically to enjoy some spectacular views en route to the current railroad\u2014which we caught in action!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Donner2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Donner2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Donner2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Donner2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Donner2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve long been intrigued by Donner Pass\u2014named after the ill-fated (as in, cannibal) expedition that became stuck there, and which the transcontinental railroad was able to surmount through immense skill, effort, &amp; will. Hen&#8217;s buddy Peter had previously hiked the 3-mille trail that now runs where the original rails once lay, and on Saturday the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10234"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10242,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10234\/revisions\/10242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}