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| Portion of the newly completed Mount Scott Trail, 1933, author’s files. |
Endnotes
1 NPS Office of the Chief Engineer, “Standards for Trail Construction,” drawing PG-5088, one sheet (folded into 16 pages), October 1934, Electronic Technical Information Center (ETIC), Denver Service Center.
2 Douglas Deur, In the Footprints of Gmukamps: A Traditional Use Study of Crater Lake National Park and Lava Beds National Monument (Seattle: Government Printing Office, 2008), 121-125.
3 Ibid. See also Steve Mark, “Others Have Passed This Way,” Nature Notes from Crater Lake 32-33 (2001-2002), 28-31.
4 Claude R. Caudle, Field Notes of the Survey of the Boundaries of Crater Lake National Park in Oregon, pages 88 and 107. Original in RG 79, 150:32:4, Shelf 2, Box 8, National Archives II, College Park, Maryland. The name “national forest” became official in 1905; both Huckleberry Mountain and Crater Lake had been in the Cascade Range Forest Reserve upon its proclamation in 1893.
5 The track was initially described as faint and in places challenging to follow, at least according to Emil Britt, who accompanied his father Peter to Crater Lake in 1874; Britt to W.G. Steel, November 17, 1918, 2, Southern Oregon Historical Society files, Medford.
6 An example is “Crater Lake,” Salem Daily Statesman, August 27, 1885, which summarized the trip taken by William G. Steel and several others earlier in the month.
7 Arant, Report on Crater Lake National Park, in Report of the Secretary of the Interior, 1903(Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1903), 166. He increased the estimated cost of improvements on the path by another $100 in 1906.
8 Arant, “Report of the Superintendent of Crater Lake National Park,” in Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1910), 535. The trail location work came in conjunction with the Corps surveying the park for a system of roads and trails, an undertaking that eventually led to construction of the first Rim Road in 1913.
