Don Wildman

Yeah.

Now we're moving dangerously into the season that we will talk a lot about.

By October 20th, the group reaches Truckee Lake, which is now known as Donner Lake.

Snow begins to fall, and they face the worst terrain yet through what is now known as Donner Pass.

We're about 7,000 feet in elevation, which, you know, in a car doesn't seem like that much.

But boy, when you're walking it, you know, and you're feeling altitude sickness, don't forget these people don't know what they're doing out here.

Family by family, they begin to traverse this landscape, and the Donners, being the leaders of this group, remain in the back.

They're bringing up the rear.

And an axle breaks on Donner's wagon, and they have to stop and repair it.

Yet another delay.

At that point, something really bad happens to George Donner.

That's interesting to me.

I did not know about the previous existing cabin.

That would have been the plan, I guess.

Oh, let's do this.

We could all live in these kinds of things.

I always wondered how that happened.

I also wondered about it being just a few cabins, but indeed it's a whole community of cabins, right?

They are good enough at building these things, and they're kind of spread over an area, a larger area.

Boy, they just didn't like each other at this point, did they?