“Snowshoe” Thompson was the first mail carrier to traverse Lake Tahoe’s summits in winter -- and he did it on skis and with an 80-pound mail bag, too.
About 40 minutes south of South Lake Tahoe, in the town of Markleeville, there’s a fairly nondescript parking area on the shoulder of state Route 88. It’s easy to miss, as is the actual start of the trail from the parking area. At just a 0.7-mile round trip, it’s easy to cover in 30 minutes, even accounting for the 230 or so feet of elevation gain up steep stone steps. It’d be easy to wonder why the short trail even exists in the first place.
Today, we’d call them skis, but in the mid-1800s, they were often called snowshoes. He supposedly crafted his own from trees on his Sierra farm, creating a pair 10 feet long and weighing roughly 25 pounds. Papers reported that his delivery bag could weigh between 60 and 80 pounds , and that Thompson rarely carried more than some meat jerky and crackers for his own use. “Mr.
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