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Devils Ladder

Bear scat.
What they saw looking to the top of the summit. How disheartening that must have been.
Trees had to be cut down and moved to get the wagons through.
Devils Ladder
Wagon wheel ruts worn into the granite.
Red lake. At the base of the ladder. The pioneers camped around the lake, resting and dissembling their wagons to get ready for the long 3/4 mile ascent to the summit. Records show there were often 50,000 migrants a month coming over the Carson Pass. This photo shows some of the steepness they had to traverse. Oxen often fell to their knees, bruised and battered and bloody they made trip after trip.
Columbine.
Scar is mostly grown over.
Devils Ladder
The slope was often 45 degrees. Wagons were unloaded , dissembled and everything either carried on the back of men or oxen were double yoked and pulled wagon parts up the slope. Ropes and chains were rapped around trees to get a purchase. This tree shows the scar from from such activity.
Devils Ladder

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