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[RC] [RC] Applegate-lassen - DreamWeaver

I'll be there, give me a week between any other multiday in the region (esp. if it's a 5 day) and we'll be there! I did this ride in 1998 and would love to have the opportunity to do it again.

Here are some links telling about the history of the area and the trail. These are the kinds of rides that we need to fight for so they stay in existence. Even if it happens every other year, or every third year, or fifth year----this is something that is truly a special event and it is important to keep these things alive, as part of our history, and also because of the adventure that they provide. Regular endurance rides just don't compare to these kinds of experiences. Karen in NV

http://www.canvocta.org/routes/route_Lassen.html

http://www.csuchico.edu/lbib/spc/lind/photos.html and http://www.csuchico.edu/lbib/spc/lind/imgMap9.html

http://dmla.clan.lib.nv.us/docs/shpo/markers/mark_49.htm

From this offroadsite: http://www.offroadexperience.com/applegatelassentrail.htm

It's 1847 you're traveling west in a wagon train, your average speed is 1.5-mph. After months on the trail you arrive at Lassen Meadows. You find a painted barrel on the side of the trail, full of notes and mail from other travelers. You dig in and start reading, you find out that in 1846 the Donner Party had been stranded in the mountain snows with a great loss of life. You rest for the night, the next morning your wagon train has to make a choice, follow the California (later the Donner Route) Route into the Sierra's, take the Carson Trail south-west across the 40-Mile Desert, or swing you wagons north-west via the Applegate-Lassen Trail (later to become known as the "Death Route").

Deaths and Graves On
The Applegate-Lassen Trail
http://www.canvocta.org/deathsandgraves.htm




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