116 Record of Improvements, p. 16. The reasoning was to avoid tracking mud into the Messhall’s dining room during wet weather. A sidewalk around the building was also proposed to effect better drainage on the north and east sides of that building; RG 79, Central Classified Files 1933-49, Box 885, File 618, Program, NARA II.
117 John E. Doerr, Chief Park Naturalist’s Report, August 1938, cited in Erica Owens, Castle Crest Wildflower Trail, NPS Cultural Landscape Inventory, 2001, Part 2b, 1. The trailhead’s relocation was not to everyone’s liking, as one of Doerr’s successors (Chief Park Naturalist George Ruhle) noted in 1942 when he offered comments on the park’s master plan: “My personal opinion is that the appreciation of the Castle Crest Garden has been cut by 95% due to the relocation of the head of the trail to its present location” (Ruhle, quoted in Owens). Just two years earlier Doerr’s predecessor, D.S. Libbey, proposed to only to rebuild the stepping stones to make them more firm and to add new footbridges; Libbey, Project Application and Accomplishment Record, CL – 58, March 31, 1936, RG 79, Entry P124, Box 031, File Crater Lake 51 to 75, NARA II.
118 These are the only known trail signs at Crater Lake built by the CCC, though enrollees carved a number of signs for the trail system at Oregon Caves. Sign shops were established in both places for the project.
119 Clinton C. Clarke, President, Report of the Annual Meeting of the Pacific Crest Trail Conference, September 5-6-7, 1936, RG 79, 67A618, Box 4499, File 640-01 Pacific Crest Trail, NARA Seattle.
120 Clarke to Solinsky with attachment, November 2, 1932, 67A618, Box 4499, File 640-01 Pacific Crest Trail, NARA Seattle.
121 The USFS approved Clarke’s suggested name “Pacific Crest Trail” for the route and had already begun construction of the Cascade Crest Trail through the State of Washington by that time; C.J. Buck, Regional Forester, to Clarke, November 5, 1934, Pacific Crest Trail folder. Limiting the trail route to foot and equestrian use only, however, did not come until 1964; “Skyline Trail to the Restricted to Foot and Horseback Travel,” Medford Mail Tribune, August 19, 1964.
122 Report by William L. Royer, Skyline Trail 1934 Reconnaissance, November 15, 1934, attached to a transmittal from C.J. Buck, Regional Forester, to Superintendent David Canfield, November 26, 1934, Pacific Crest Trail folder.
123 See Stanton C. Lapham, The Enchanted Lake: Mount Mazama and Crater Lake in Story, History, and Legend (Salem: Statesman Publishing, 1931), 92 for a short description. A longer account of the “Munson Valley Trail” follows since a loop could be made of it.
