Need an adventure? Then here's the place for you: Lost Trial Lodge, Sierra Mts.

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Lost Trail Lodge: the faint call of the wild

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My destination was the Lost Trail Lodge, a hike-in lodge about four miles away, in a valley south of Donner Lake, bounded on three sides by Sierra Nevada peaks.

I learned about the place the previous winter from a ranger at the state park. The secluded chalet, I was told, is untouched by paved roads, phones or electrical lines, accessible only by snowshoes or cross-country skis.

.....The snow fell steadily. For more than two hours, I listened to the crunch, crunch, crunch of my snowshoes grinding away on the glistening snowpack. We marched past frozen ponds and towering pines, bent under the weight of snow heaps.

http://travel.latimes.com/articles/la-tr-hikein22-2009feb22

Getting there: Lost Trail Lodge is a four-mile journey by snowshoes or cross-country skis from the Donner park gate near Donner Pass Road and Interstate 80. In the summer, guests can hike, mountain bike or take a four-wheel drive to the lodge. Address: 8600 Coldstream, Truckee, Calif.

Cost: $79 per person per night or $1,180 for the entire lodge. You must bring your own food.

About the lodge: The lodge is open year-round and has seven cabins and a loft, with a total of 20 beds. Three of the cabins have Jacuzzi tubs and all have fire-burning stoves.

Reservations: [phone], www.losttraillodge.com.

I was on that train years ago and went right by the trail not knowing it was there.

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1. Cool. Thanks.

I'm not a snow person but it sounds like it might be good in summer too.