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[alexxiz]

Huh apparently Tahoe area Indians ate quite a bit of pine nuts to live. Acorn flour boiled mush was eaten too (acorns picked at lower elevations)--my understanding these were the staples. Acorn should have good nutritional value, bears eat them too. In fact, acorn has 110 calories per 28g, apparently--half of nutrition found in commercially grown nuts approx. (walnuts, etc)--if enough acorns can be saved for winter (and saved from being eaten by bears) this could provide some cold time nutrition I guess. As to eating animals, there're many squirrels and they are fat in winter--squirrell has to be cooked for a long time but I've known people who grew up on eating squirrells and were very healthy. Squirrell meat is way healthier than supermarket meat, even the organic one. Not sure Yosemite rangers would take kindly to seeing a squirrell being cooked on a camp stove though!
As I read about Camp 4 history, someone apparently just ate a whole bear in Camp 4 decades ago... those were different times for sure!

[Senno]

Ill prepared settlers ate themselves in the Tahoe area.

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[alexxiz]

The best part this summer was to watch 5 screaming guys with flashlights chase a raccoon running away with their food bag...through the dark forest. Also, got a pic of a bear chasing the tourists. And a bunch of dead drunk Europeans in camp 4 parking lot asking me "where to sleep in the forest?"

[.highnlite]

Originally Posted by Senno

Ill prepared settlers ate themselves in the Tahoe area.

Donner Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

We used to have a great party at Donner Ski Ranch every year back in the olden days, we called it The Donner Party, the motto was, "whose for supper?"

Historic trivia, The Donners never got to Donner Lake. And, the year before a teenager was left at Donner Lake by his party of trappers, he had busted his leg and could not continue, he spent the winter there without problems. His cabin was used by one of the families in the Donner Party. The ridge to the south of the lake with the railroad on it was named for him. Shallenburger Ridge.