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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> William Holmes <beholmes51@gmail.com> <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 3, 2025 9:32 PM<br><b>Subject:</b> History Expeditions Comes to GCSHTA, 9-30-2025, Tuesday. Join us at Lot 33 in the evening around a small fire.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>To all Gerle Creek Cabin owners, their friends and family,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>If you like history and outdoor adventures, you will love this group of ultra athletes, and admittedly, amateur historians. This year's plan will be to retrace the path taken by six members of the Stephens-Townsend-Murphy Party (STMP) on horses in 1844. They will leave Donner Memorial State Park on 9-29 in the early morning hours and arrive at GCSHT lot 33 at 6:30PM on the 30th. They will be riding five horses. <b>I am inviting everyone to the Holmes/Vail cabin for a campfire (hopefully) and a great time talking with these incredible people.</b> See the link to their website below. They will leave early on October 1st heading for Dru Barner horse camp and eventually Auburn, although the real Horse Party headed for Sinclairs Ranch (Cal Expo).<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I have been working with Bob Crowley, Tim Twietmeyer, Jennifer Hemmen, Elke Reimer and Hal Hall since 2020 when they ran and snowshoed the 100 miles from the Donner Memorial State Park in five days following the route of the Forlorn Hope group (Donner Party). Since 2020 they have retraced several other notable historic routes which they will talk about at the campfire. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I know it is a weeknight, and we haven’t done this before, but who knew that a brave group of pioneers came through our area in 1844. Live on the wild side. BYOB and bring a chair. Let me know if you’ll attend the campfire. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Bring some good questions. If we don’t know the answer we’ll make something up.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Bill Holmes, Lot 33<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>GCSHTA Board member<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>President, CA-NV Chapter<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Oregon-California Trails Association <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=300 style='width:225.0pt;background:#B3BBC7;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><img width=300 height=200 style='width:3.125in;height:2.0833in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:1DBB59AB-8FDA-4FCF-9477-33FDE5F52559"></span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=300 style='width:225.0pt;background:#B3BBC7;background-color:rgba(179, 187, 199, 1);-apple-color-filter:initial'><tr><td style='padding:6.0pt 0in 6.0pt 0in;background-color:rgba(179, 187, 199, 1);-apple-color-filter:initial'><div style='margin-left:12.0pt;margin-right:12.0pt;max-width:100%;overflow:hidden'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><a href="https://historyexp.org/"><span style='color:white;text-decoration:none'>History Expeditions</span></a></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><a href="https://historyexp.org/"><span style='color:white;text-decoration:none'>historyexp.org</span></a></span><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>