2003 Revised Admin History – Chapter Nineteen Trails by Stephen R. Mark, Park Historian 2013

190 Superintendent’s Annual Report 1991, 5.

191 Superintendent’s Annual Report 1991, 3.

192 Superintendent’s Annual Report 1993, 10; Morris to Larry Swan, Winema National Forest, January 25, 1994, 2.

193 Organized in December 1983, the patrol grew from an initial expression of interest by the Alia Mage Ski Club of Klamath Falls in 1982. One of their first projects involved installing signs at all major junctions along 35 miles of signed ski trails; Superintendent’s Annual Report 1983, 11; [Neil Barrett] A Brief History of the Crater Lake National Park Ski Patrol, 1982-1999, 1.

194 Uwe Nehring, Environmental Assessment, Pacific Crest Trail Reroute, Crater Lake National Park, May 11, 1994, 2-3, in compliance files, Historian’s office.

195 Superintendent’s Annual Report 1994, 10.

196 Those camps were to be situated on Dutton Creek (“Oklahoma Camp,” an archaeological site) and at the base of Grouse Hill, though the latter lacked water; Nehring, 3. The PCT designation was dropped within the park in 1996 after discussion with the Pacific Crest Trail Conference, yet the section map for the PCT printed by the Forest Service in 2008 shows the trail as an official alternate for hikers only. Other maps, such as the National Geographic Trails Illustrated sheet (#244) for Crater Lake National Park make no mention of a PCT Alternate, while the latest guidebook for park trails (Trails of Crater Lake National Park and Oregon Caves National Monument by William Sullivan, 2010) appears to dance around the subject.

197 Nehring, Environmental Assessment, 2.

198 Stephen R. Mark to Trails Committee, Crater Lake National Park, June 8, 1993, D30 Trails, Central Files.

199 John R. Davis, Jr., Klamath Falls Cluster Office, to Elva Michael, Crater Lake National Park, April 1, 1974; David K. Morris, Superintendent, to Larry Swan, Winema National Forest, January 25, 1994, p. 1.

200 The ad hoc origins of those 22 miles made use of the term “system” problematic. Trails remained well down the list of park priorities, which usually focused on the developed sites (such as Rim Village, Park Headquarters, or Annie Spring) and road corridors. The operating budget in FY94 was $2.7 million, with an average of $250,000 in project money added to the park base.

201 Superintendent’s Annual Report 1996, 9; SAR 1997, 12; and SAR 1998, 12.

202 Footbridges in the Castle Crest Garden or along the Lady of the Woods Trail were replaced in 1997 and 1998, with the largest one (in the Garden) being a Friends project. Culvert removal required excavation and hauling in 1998, the same year hitch rails in the Sphagnum Bog area were relocated from more sensitive sites.

203 Initially named the “Park Headquarters Historic Walking Tour,” the guide was later revised and re-titled “Lady of the Woods Loop” in 2007.

204 Cheri Killam-Bomhard, Trail Restoration Project, Fee Demonstration #415, Planning Stage, Crater Lake National Park, February 1999, 1.

205 [Steve Mark], Notes from walking a preliminary a proposed re-route of the Pacific Crest Trail, Cascade Divide, north of Highway 62, along Munson Ridge, October 2, 1999.

206 Steve Mark, “Presenting Crater Peak and the Pacific Crest,” Nature Notes from Crater Lake 32-33 (2001/2002), 25-27.

207 Killam-Bomhard (comp.), Trail Restoration Project, Fee Demonstration #448, January 16, 2002.

208 Trail locations are shown in relation to abandoned sections in Kelly N. Ktitzer, Report on the Archeological Survey of the Proposed Annie Spring Spur Trail Project, Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, January 7, 2002, and a similar report on the PCT Rehabilitation and Development Project, January 8, 2002, cultural resources files. A brief mention of the work is in the Superintendent’s Annual Report 2003, 4.