Blood, Sweat, and Trees

Some newly posted film footage on the Sierra Club website gives us a bit of insight into the mettle of Sierra Club volunteers, circa 1934. That's when an ambitious crew of guys and gals built Clair Tappaan Lodge at Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada mountain range.

You see them banging nails, removing tree stumps, feeding chipmunks, and pumping water in a wooded setting. At the end of the clip you see them tossing snowballs at each other.


There's also a clip of folks using the old Sierra Club rope tow at Donner Summit in the 1950's, and yet another clip that shows a dog-sled team hauling a wood stove into the Peter Grubb Hut, also up at Donner.

Nice memories--even if they're not our own.