It's 1846, it's the Sierra Nevada and the Donner party have just made the worst dinner plans since Jamie Oliver did jerk chicken rice.

In what hungry gold prospectors once called the 12th episode of the CB Wallop Podcast, join Phil Jerrod and Phil Lucas as they discuss The Donner Party - the group of covered wagon settlers who left too late, went the wrong way, got stuck in the snow and ended up eating each other.

Should they have taken more Biltong… yes. Yes they should.

TRIGGER WARNING: If your social anxiety disorder is set off by any of the following issues: Starvation, Disease, Child/Mother-in-law death, Murder, Dismemberment, Cannibalism and/or frost bitten toes being accidentally seared off by a campfire, then this episode probably isn't for you.

(In all seriousness - this one does get nasty… so .. you know… be an adult about it.)

Title music by Steve Adam

Production by Mike Sandeman - http://www.northbrightonrecording.co.uk/

Trail of Tragedy: The Excavation of the Donner Party Site

AVA19387VNB1 - 1994

The Shining

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RJm4iynxU0