Over it came many who afterwards became pioneers in hewing out this new land from the raw material of which lasting commonwealths are made.

Turning south to Cold Stream, it passes by Summit Valley on to Starved Camp.

The stumps of the trees cut down by the unfortunate pioneers are still standing.
It was always a difficult road to negotiate, the divide between Mt.
Lincoln and Anderson Peak being over 7500 feet high.

But those heroes of 1848-49 made it, triumphing over every barrier and winning for themselves what Joaquin Miller so poetically has accorded them, where he declares that "the snow-clad Sierras are their everlasting monuments." This road is now, in places, almost obliterated.

One section for three miles is grown up.