The probable route of the howitzer on January 28th and 29th, 1944.
It got as far as the first position (1), and no farther than the second (2).

Frémont, January 28, 1844:
Snow and broken country together made our traveling difficult; we were often compelled to make large circuits, and ascend the highest and most exposed ridges, in order to avoid snow, which in other places was banked up to a great depth. To-night we did not succeed in getting the Howitzer into camp. This was the most laborious day we had yet passed through; the steep ascents and deep snow exhausting both men and animals.

Frémont, January 29, 1844:
We followed a trail down a hollow where the Indians had descended, the snow being so deep that we never came near the ground; but this only made our descent the easier, and, when we reached a little affluent to the river at the bottom [Deep creek], we suddenly found ourselves in the presence of eight or ten Indians. The principal stream [Walker River] still running through an impractical cañon , we ascended a very steep hill, which proved afterwards the last and fatal obstacle to our little howitzer, which was finally abandoned at this place.