the annual Tahoe Tavern Challenge was to see who would be the first across the Summit in Spring, long before the state began plowing roads, so who could cross first was a real challenge. The event ended at the Tahoe Tavern in Tahoe City.
Arthur Foote was the mining engineer in charge of the Northstar mine in Grass Valley and is the subject of the Pulitzer Prize winning book ‘the Angle of Repose’ by Wallace Stegner. His crew above, won the 1911 Tahoe Tavern Challenge
I know a guy who said he rope-wrapped his motorcycle tires to ride in the snow.
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