This collection of clips was compiled by Bela Vadasz, who with his wife Mimi ran a climbing and backcountry skiing guide service at Donner Pass until his death in 2015. In the first segment, probably shot in the late 1920s, a group (possibly from San Francisco) appears to have gotten off the train at the Western Portal snow shed, and climb onto terrain later developed as the Sugar Bowl ski area. Later, there are clips of cars unloading at Soda Springs. It wasn't until the early 1930s that the state began to plow the Donner Pass road, so this footage probably dates from around 1933 or '34.