44 NPS civil engineer George Goodwin made both points after his horseback examination of the trail’s location in 1919, followed by visiting Diamond Lake at a time when the Forest Service was widening an old trail for a road to the south end of the lake, possibly with an eye to providing eventual access to the Klamath Marsh; Goodwin, undated Memorandum to the Director [October 1919], 2-3, RG 79, Entry P9, Box 005, File 1237, Part 2, Appropriations, NARA II. Sparrow saw construction of a trail to the park’s north boundary in June 1920 as contingent on the NPS adding Diamond Lake to the park, as Director Stephen T. Mather repeatedly requested in Congress; Sparrow to Mather, June 2, 1920, 1, RG 79, Entry P9, Box 006, File 6, Appropriations-General, NARA II.
45 E.R. Johnson, Report of Preliminary Investigation Oregon Skyline Route Between Crater Lake Boundary to Three Fingered Jack in the State of Oregon, July 10 – October 10, 1920, U.S. Forest Service Files, Umpqua National Forest, copy in author’s possession.
46 Sparrow, DAR 1921, 226.
47 Thomson, DAR 1923, 143.
48 Thomson to Stephen T. Mather, NPS Director, November 12, 1927, p. 1, RG 79, Central Classified Files 1907-39, File 640 (Trails General), NARAII.
49 Walter Pilchard Eaton, Skyline Camps (Boston: W.A. Wilde, 1923), 140-41.
50 Thomson to Mather, 2.
51 Ernest P. Leavitt (Superintendent), Crater Wall Trail, Master Plan revision of March 6, 1942, RG 79, 67A614, Box 8936, File 600.09 Master Plan Correspondence, NA Seattle.
52 Unrau, Administrative History, 474.
53 USDI-NPS, Motorists Guide, Crater Lake National Park, Oregon 1924. Besides the Rim Campground and Annie Spring, the other four designated sites were at Whitehorse Creek, Cold Spring, Lost Creek, and Wheeler Creek.
54 Thomson, DAR 1924, 119. There was a strange lack of news coverage for the project, possibly due to the eroding soils that needed annual maintenance for any trail into the hallway. The distance of a quarter mile is in “A trip to Llao’s Hallway,” in Ralph Leighton, et al., Collection of Notes and Materials on the Study of the Appreciation of Nature at Crater Lake, Oregon, typescript dated 1941, V-118, Crater Lake National Park Library.
55 Thomson estimated construction to cost less than $100 (of the $680 allocated to trails in 1924) and suggested the name “Giant Nutcracker” due to the feeling he had that “even a sneeze would crash the walls (of the canyon) together;” Thomson to the Director, September 28, 1923, RG 79, Entry P9, Box 009, Part 3, Miscellaneous, NARA II.
56 Ibid. While there are numerous articles about the Lady of the Woods, there is little or no information about the original trail apart from mention in Thomson’s report. His predecessor, Sparrow, had opted for something of a “middle ground” when faced with interest generated by newspaper articles in 1921. The NPS put a few painted arrows on trees in order to point visitors to the sculpture; Sparrow to the Director, September 21, 1921, RG 79, Entry P9, Box 009, File 1239, Part 3, Miscellaneous, NARA II.
57 Ibid.
