Imagine you are a teenage young man (or woman). You’re living in a small one room cabin in the mountains (with no door to cover the only opening). You’re far from home – somewhere you’ve never been. For months. It is winter and it is snowing – a lot. And you do not have much food. Did I mention you are alone? That is the predicament Moses Schallenberger found himself in … Moses Schallenberger was…

John Albert Thompson, nicknamed “Snowshoe Thompson”, is best known for delivering mail across the Sierra Nevada mountains from Placerville, California to Genoa, Nevada. Animals and vehicles could not make the journey through the deep snow in the winter. Despite doing this difficult and potentially dangerous work for twenty years (1856-1876) he was never paid for the job. To make the eastbound trip in just three days, Thompson actually used long skis (10 foot) and a…