He worked here in the ‘30s. (5)
That’s right.
I had an interview with him last year.
Good. Well, that was what I was going to say. He had been a ranger here so he knew his way around and undoubtedly helped lay out the snow courses. We had one that was somewhere up here around headquarters. I do not recall where it was. It could have been down on Munson Creek, somewhere over here. We took snow courses down at the east entrance once a month. We either skied or we took a Tucker Snow Cat, which is one of the first Snow Cats that Tucker made. Perhaps I better explain myself in case you don’t know. Tucker Snow Cat Company was located in Medford. I don’t know if it is still there or not.
Howard Arant mentioned them as well and there was this problem with Solinsky. That’s as much as I know.
The first Tucker Snow Cats had skis on the front and wheels on the front so you could raise the skis and put the wheels down so you could go on the road. And in the back it had two tracks, rubber-type tracks on the back and then when you got on the snow bank, why you would get the wheels up and go with skis in front. Now it worked fairly well except if you got too close to a tree why it would invariably get stuck because one track would go down. You haven’t been here in the winter yet, but in a good heavy snow there will be a big dip around the tree. The tree will hold out the snow and there will be a big hole around the tree. If you got too close to that tree, you would invariably get stuck. Or your skis would dig in or you would throw a track.
