White Dugway clung to a white shale formation a mile east on Crow Creek Road, where moisture in the shale and freezing weather made the road dangerously slippery, so wagons and sleighs could easily slide off and overturn. Around this hazardous point, the first loads of salt were hauled from the Crow Creek salt mines to Bear Lake Valley. Following the salt road, the first settlers entered Salt River Valley, also called Star Valley, improving the road as they traveled. For 50 years, from 1879 to 1929, Crow Creek Road served as the lifeline of the Star Valley community. Cheese, butter, hides, wool, and hogs traveled by sleigh and wagon to the railhead at Montpelier, Idaho, while machinery and equipment, household goods, food, clothing, and medical supplies came back on the return trip. The Star Valley Stage carried mail and passengers daily, and new breeding stock, including dairy and beef cattle, hogs, sheep, and horses, arrived by rail at Montpelier and were then hauled or driven along this route to Star Valley. Nearly everything entering or leaving the valley faced some danger at White Dugway.