136 Steve Mark, “Fifty Years of Ski Trails,” Caldera Chronicles 1: 9 (1999), 2-3; Betty H. Huntress, “To see and ski at Crater Lake,” The Highway Magazine (1950), 261-62; notes from an oral history interview with Lee Sneddon, November 12, 1991, 2. Rope tows had been in use as early as 1940, with one of them located just south of Crater Lake Lodge; E.A. Davidson, Landscape Architecture Field Notes, November 7, 1940, 5, RG 79, Central Classified Files, Box 11, File 600, Part III, NARA San Bruno.
137 Leavitt through the regional director to Drury, August 30, 1949, RG 79, 67A618, Box 6, File 624 Trails, NARA Seattle.
138 Duane S. Fitzgerald to H.S. Shilko, regional engineer, August 13, 1949; Leavitt to the regional director, August 25, 1949, RG 79, 67A618, Box 4499, File 630 Roads (General), NARA Seattle.
139 The Lost Creek Trail presumably ran 0.7 miles along the stream south of the portable entrance station, but it had received light use that dwindled to almost nothing once the closure of the east entrance took effect in 1956, thus obviating any need for the station. The Llaos Hallway Trail supposedly ran 0.8 miles through the trees until steep walls made walking in Whitehorse Creek the only practical route. Closure of the campground adjacent to Highway 62 after the summer of 1941 helped to place the trail out of sight and thus out of mind. Use of the trail afterward could be characterized as (at best) light. The CCC trail of 1934 climbed a slope near Vidae Falls and started from where the old Rim Road crossed Vidae Creek, but with the new alignment of Rim Drive crossing the fill made to bridge the creek, few visitors could be bothered finding a path to the overlook.
140 The same could be said for traversing the older route through Sun Meadow, even while that portion of Rim Drive between Dutton Cliff and Vidae Falls remained closed during and after the war due to rock fall, so that visitors had to use the Grayback Road. When Rim Drive did re-open, the absence of developed viewpoints at the rim of Sun Notch led to social trails along the 0.3 mile route to the parking area.
141 USDI-NPS, Roads, Trails, and Parkways, Construction Data as of September 1955, one sheet, catalog 8899, item 80, CLNP Museum and Archives Collections; USDI-NPS, Branch of Landscape Architecture, Western Office of Design and Construction, Roads and Trails, part of the master plan, CLNP, September 1955, one of three sheets, catalog 8899, item 241, CLNPMAC. As for the Skyline route, 20 of the 26 miles in the park were maintained fire roads. The other eight trails in the proposed program were to be cleared and rebuilt where necessary over their entire length. These included mails to Garfield Peak, “Castle Creek” (the old bridle path from Annie Spring over the divide), “Duwee Falls” (Godfrey Glen), Dutton Creek, Discovery Point, Sun Notch, Crater Peak, and Union Peak. No work was proposed for the Mount Scott, Sentinel Point, Wizard Island, and Castle Crest Garden trails.
142 Ibid.
143 Ibid. It listed a “Munson Valley Trail” as proposed, one that mostly corresponded with much of the old Government Camp Trail that led from Park Headquarters to Munson Ridge or Cascade Divide.
144 USDI-NPS, Mission 66 Prospectus, Crater Lake National Park, April 20, 1956, 13, RG 79, 67A863, Box 9, File A98 Mission 66, NARA Seattle.
145 USDI-NPS, Mission 66 Development Schedule, July 1958, 25, Mission 66 folder.
146 Superintendent’s Monthly Report, September 10, 1958, 11.
147 Narrative Statement, 1959 Progress Report, Cleetwood Cove Trail, 1, Park Maintenance files.
148 Completion Report, January 16, 1963, 1, Park Maintenance files. Paving the trail had been deferred indefinitely.
149 USDI-NPS, Mission 66 for Crater Lake National Park, 4, RG 79, 67A863, Box 9, File A98 Mission 66, NARA Seattle. Routed plastic labels mounted on steel posts replaced the “old style” labels in 1960.
150 Reference to it appeared in a NPS press release, August 24, 1929, though no copies survive.
151 Superintendent’s Monthly Report, August 9, 1960, 6, followed by SMR, September 7, 1960, 4. The trail booklet assumed printed form in 1962. Authored by Assistant Park Naturalist Richard M. “Dick” Brown, it was published by the Crater Lake Natural History Association.
152 George C. Ruhle, Along Crater Lake Roads (Crater Lake: Crater Lake Natural History Association, 1964), 37. Ruhle referred to it as the Duwee Falls Trail in the first (1953) edition of his book, a name that surfaced again in a list of trails compiled by the NPS in 1966.
153 Superintendent’s Monthly Report, December 7, 1962, 2.
