First, you need to find the height of the trailer's tongue when the trailer is level. Set up the trailer on flat pavement. Run the tongue jack up and down or prop it up on some scrap lumber until it's level. You can determine this by placing a carpenter's level on the tongue or by eyeballing the trailer from the side from a distance of about 50 feet. Measure from the ground to the top of the ball socket. Park the vehicle you'll use to tow the trailer on level ground too.
Two years ago, the Truckee-Donner Land Trust purchased the Summit Canyon area at the foot of the pass so that now the entire pass area is open space. The Old Lincoln Highway trail is now a great hike that winds down through the historic Donner Pass area.wo years ago, the Truckee-Donner Land Trust purchased the Summit Canyon area at the foot of the pass so that now the entire pass area is open space. The Old Lincoln Highway trail is now a great hike that winds down through the historic Donner Pass area.
At that point on October 28th, the snow began to fall, and they were stranded. Of the 81 people who arrived in the mountains that fall, only half of them survived. JULIE SCHABLITSKY: One thing that people don't realize is that the Donner Party split into two separate locations, six miles from each other. One group wintered at Donner Lake in three cabins and a lean-to. The remaining party included the George and Jacob Donner families, as well as teamsters and the widow Mrs. Wolfinger. Those 21 people camped at Alder Creek. There, they weren't as fortunate and had to quickly erect lean-tos and other brush shelters.