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1901
July 1901 Diller again spots the same upright, broken off tree, floating in the Lake that he spotted in 1898. “Owing to the steep slope of the rim, a tree frequently slides into the water in an erect position, and as the lower part becomes water-logged, it floats about the lake with only a few feet of the top projecting above the water and thus furnishes a spectacle curious to excite the imagination,” Diller writes.
Record Lake level established by Diller at 6,178.545 feet above sea level.
July 20 1901 Diller Pin and graph established on a Lake rock, 3.5 feet above the Lake level using the original Mazama level, directly below Rim Village, near the old Lake Trail.
August 13 1901 Mazama copper box found in 5 feet of water at Danger Bay, 3.5 miles from where it was first established. The records have been well preserved.
September 1901 Amos Voorhies, well-known Grants Pass newspaper publisher, along with a friend, bicycle the 112-mile journey from Grants Pass to Crater Lake. Mr. Voorhies was a highly respected glass negative photographer, traveling the region snapping photos from his bicycle.
Pedaling was fairly good until he reached Prospect and was able to keep up with the pack-horse carrying camping equipment and supplies. After Prospect, the road became rough and muddy and too difficult for pedaling, so he began pushing the bicycle, but mud caked so thickly on the wheels he was forced to carry the machine most of the way to Union Creek.
Finally arriving at Crater Lake, Mr. Voorhies and his friend were the only visitors at the lake rim that September afternoon and during their several days’ stay they saw no other persons. They wandered down to Victor Rock (now Sinnott Memorial).
The same year the ambitious young cyclist pedaled to Oregon Caves as far as the road would permit and he walked the remaining 10 miles. (From an article in the Medford Mail Tribune, July 10, 1936, page 4)
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