35 Sparrow, DAR 1918, op cit. It supposedly traversed a distance of only two miles, but is not evident on the maps from that period. The Forest Service trails of the time formed something of a network, primarily aimed at access for firefighting. This segment may have been in response to the trail estimates provided in 1916, a route that originally called for linking Polebridge Creek with Red Blanket Canyon; Sparrow ruled out the Polebridge Creek to Union Peak segment in 1917; Sparrow to the Director, November 2, 1917, 2, RG 79, Entry P9, Box 013, File 123, Reports – Monthly – Superintendent, May 5, 1915 – July 15, 1919, NARA II. Sparrow put the total cost of the Union Peak and Red Blanket routes at $950, Sparrow to the Director, January 5, 1919, 2, RG 79, Entry P9, Box 013, File 123, Reports – Monthly – Superintendent.
36 Ibid. Part of the road built by Arant was later marked for skiers as the “Raven Trail.” What Sparrow called the “Dewie Trail” was a dead end spur road built while the Corps of Engineers were in the park. A portion of it was later incorporated into the Godfrey Glen Trail.
37 Earl Morse Wilbur, “Description of Crater Lake,” Mazama 1:2 (1897), 146.
38 A photo appears in William Alley, “The Photographic Legacy of Alex Sparrow,” 12.
39 Sparrow, DAR 1919, 218. The plan is referenced in George E. Goodwin, Crater Lake National Park, Improvement of Roads and Bridges, November 1914, 14, MS 591, Southern Oregon Historical Society.
40 Ibid. Sparrow estimated the job at only $150 for three miles of trail; Sparrow, Supplementary Report to accompany the annual estimates for the Crater Lake National Park: for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, dated July 21, 1918, 3, RG 79, Entry P9, Box 005, File 1237, Part 2, Appropriations, NARA II. As early as November 1917, Sparrow remarked that a trail should be built to Sun Notch if the Corps of Engineers did not construct a road there; Sparrow to the Director, November 2, 1917, 3, RG 79, Entry P9, Box 013, File 123, Reports – Monthly – Superintendent, May 5, 1915 – July 15, 1919, NARA II. He made trail construction there a priority in his estimates for FY19.
41 Sparrow, DAR 1920, 281.
42 Sparrow, Supplementary Report, July 21, 1918, op. cit., 2.
43 Ibid.
