Truckee River Route - Narrow Avenue Traditional Cache
Truckee River Route - Narrow Avenue
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This cache, the 5th in my "Truckee River Route" series, is a bit off the beaten path...4WD not necessary, but you'll need some ground clearance. The terrain rating will increase a little as you get closer to the cache.
The California Trail followed the north bank of the Humboldt River through present-day Nevada, to the Humboldt Sink. At Humboldt Bar, the trail diverged, with the Truckee River Route crossing the western edge of the 40-Mile Desert to the Truckee River at Wadsworth, roughly the same route followed by Interstate 80 today. In all, some 250,000 people would use this trail from the early 1840's until the introduction of the railroads in the late 1860's.
Marker T-5 ~ Narrow Avenue
As the emigrants passed this point along the trail to California, the good news was that they were finally past the alkali sponge of the Humboldt Sink...the bad news was that they were just approaching the half-way point of the dreaded 40-mile Desert crossing.
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