Would that have made it a little easier?
Oh yeah, I think so.
Although, like you say, I think there is something to the difference in the generations, too.
And I see what you’re driving at far as we were concerned. Because here we were here, but we could pick up and go down to Roseburg, too. Where, if it had snowed once in three years, it got a lot of snow! So, it’s a point that’s quite well taken. Why, I’d never explored it, or anything of the sort, but it could be.
Well, I just noticed the number of people here, except for the people that have some connection with Fort Klamath, there aren’t that many other people who are even from Medford who work in the park.
And you mentioned that they seem to be staying at Crater Lake a shorter time than at a lot of other places. But, you know one thing, and I think it was George Hartzog that initiated this, is that some areas are “hardships areas”. Now I don’t know if Crater Lake is still categorized as a “hardship area” or not, but it was at one time, anyway. As were parts of Rainier, and not all of Rainier. And of course, the Alaska parks that we had then. And some of these other places were categorized as “hardship” places where you were not supposed to stay there for more than a couple of years, because of the snow and the isolation and this sort of thing.
Our housing costs still take that isolation factor into account.
Now, your housing costs, of course, are a lot more. And a lot more in comparison than they were when we were in the service. At least that’s the way I hear it, I don’t know.
Well, I guess it depends if you’re permanent or seasonal. I’m in the seasonal category so I’m at $40.00 a month to live in a trailer.
Yeah, I think it does make a lot of difference.
Let see… “Did Mission 66 Building Program had detrimental effect on the backcountry of some parks?” I don’t really think so, Steve. I don’t recall any place where it would have had a detrimental effect. In the first place, in the parks that I was in, like Sequoia/Kings, Yosemite, and Yellowstone, during that time there was very little that was done in the backcountry that had anything to do with Mission 66.
