I noticed in having done hikes to the top of Watchman, it’s very difficult to recruit, to get away from the Corrals.
Yeah, because they’re the rim drivers. I counted one time about 150 cigarette butts out there one day. I had a few minutes before I had to go around the rim, so I just got down on my hands and knees and started picking up trash and all the cigarette butts. So ever since then, every time I see anybody throwing a cigarette butt down, I say, “You know, somebody’s going to have to pick that up.”
That reminds me of one thing about Rouse that I had planned to say. I had about a half-hour rim rove in between duty times, so I always made it a job to try to head over toward the lodge and just pick up all the trash. I went there at least once a week. That promenade wall would have pieces of paper that had been blown up and hooked on the trees in there and so on. I had seen some underneath the elderberry growing up there and so I get down and looked around. There wasn’t anybody around, when you’re in uniform you have to be so dignified, I reached down and started grabbing for something. Just then I saw Rouse drive by. With my rear end sticking out of that tree, Rouse drives by and I go “Oh, my goodness, no.” I just kind of scrunched down there. Apparently he had seen my because I looked up and there he is on the other side on his hands and knees reaching up and grabbing other papers that had been caught there. Neat way for a superintendent to help out a seasonal. This is why I say he pretty well regarded seasonal as a very important asset to the park.
The Mission 66 projects, I think for the most part, were almost disasters at Crater Lake, architectural disasters. Crater Lake had look forward to these buildings for so long because everybody was living down in Sleep Hollow in summer housing that had been turned into winter housing without proper insulation or anything like that. Those people had it hard down there. It was cold and wet and damp. So finally they were going to build these new buildings. They started them in ’59. The first one that was built, the big one, 16 is it, the three story one (41)? Its number is out of order with all the others down there, it seems like. Seventeen?
Seventeen, I think.
What’s the old Superintendent’s house number?
