Karl Auerbach on Nostr: There's more to the story - as we drove north we had to cross the Sierra, somewhere, ...

There's more to the story - as we drove north we had to cross the Sierra, somewhere, but the passes kept being closed by the snow. I can't remember whether it was Ebbets or Carson pass that was open - it was the one that has two summits. We got over the first summit when the storm really hit and we were almost trapped in the valley between the summits - we at times had to push the car (no tire chains) to get it moving again (we did sink the car in mud later that day after we got out of the mountains - we were a dirty mess!!)

(I also have a story of carrying and pushing a steam locomotive with two large trucks over Carson pass - it was too tall to be carried over I80 and a single truck did not have the power for the job.)

As for the Owens Valley - one foggy night we pulled off the road because we simply could not see. When dawn arrived and it cleared we discovered we were parked/sleeping on the runway of the Lone Pine airport.