Travel Update: Full Post to Follow
My weekend ghost town plans didn’t work out so I found other activities. Friday was a bear hunt and fall color photo shoot with good friend and photographer Dwayne Hicks.
Sunday was wheeling in the Sierras with friends Stephen and Dave. I don’t have photos of the bad section of the road because we were too busy hanging onto the Jeep
It was the most challenging road Rubi and I have driven, mostly due to large boulders in the road. Stephen called this morning to make sure I was still talking to him
Our destination was Genoa Peak and the crash site of Paradise Flight 901A. In 1964, it was the second worst plane crash in the US with the death of 85 people. I learned of the crash while researching haunted locations in Carson Valley. A temporary morgue was set up in Minden and the building is now reported to be haunted. Debris covers the mountain and family members erected a memorial.
The trail we drove connected Kingsbury Grade and Spooner Summit. The road follows the Johnson Cutoff, a cutoff of the Carson Emigrant Trail.
I’m thinking I need to find my research and write a post for Halloween on the haunted locations in Minden, Genoa and Gardnerville.
10-5-2020
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