Off to the east of the lodge?
Yeah.
I remember seeing pictures of tent cabins. There was also a comfort station built there. I’ve always wondered about it because it looked real similar to a studio that Kiser built about that same time. [It was] basically a rock building.
You didn’t get involved in living where the tents were?
No, no. About the only place they could be is between the lodge and the plaza, where the tables and stuff are up on that common knoll.
Up at the picnic area, where the old campground is?
The picnic area is what I meant.
There was an original road that was steeper that we now use as a ski trail. Was that used at all?
I presume so. We used to hike up there in the evenings. We’d hike up and down that old road because it was shorter (4). I remember seeing parts of the steel showing. (OH).
Maybe we should break right now and then we could go on to a couple of topics.
We (Dave Wilcox, Marion Robbins, Albert and I) were sent in there to track that fire down. We would trench it and put it and put it out. The other guys couldn’t pull a crosscut saw, so we’d fall a couple of trees. The wind came up while we were eating our lunch. It just started roaring. It went down that canyon faster than a horse could travel, I’m sure. All them dry needles trees just exploded when that heat hit’em. We were on that fire for about a week. The whole crew had to go over and start fighting that fire. You had to take your lunch with you when you went around it after we got it trenched. In those days, the only way we had to fight fire was a grub hoe and shovels. It got so big that we finally got it backfired to put it out, but one morning we woke up and there was an inch and a half of snow on the ground. So that put the fire out. We came back to camp (OH)
Was that late in the year?
That was in ’24. I can’t remember. It was the late part of the season. It had to be because the first snow put the fire out.
