Donner Pass

[ don-er ]

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noun

a mountain pass in the Sierra Nevada, in E California. 7,135 feet (2,175 meters) high.

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As of Monday Monday morning, 29 inches had fallen at Donner Pass in the northern Sierra Nevada, which is at an elevation of around 7,000 feet, and it was still snowing.

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