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Scenic 34-Mile Rim Drive Provides Varied Glimpses Of Crater Lake
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OKEflOy. SUNDAY. JULY 2S, 1940.
RIM VILLAGE IS
STARTING POINT
FORiVELTRIF
Many Lookouts Afforc
Sweeping Vistas of Lake
And Adjacent Area.
By John C. Doarr
Combined with the scenic 82
mile drive from Medford to
Crater Lake, the 34-mile drive
around the rim of Crater Lake
offers countless opportunities
for enjoying many of the unsur
passed scenic values of Med
ford's Rogue Wonderland.
Paved state highway 62 from
Medford to Crater Iake tra
verses the upper portion of the
famous Rogue River valley and
the Rogue River national forest.
The highway makes accessible
the excellent fishing waters oi
the river and its tributaries as
well as numerous resorts, cabin
accommodations, and forest ser
vice camps, in addition to, inspir
ing river, mountain andforest
scenery.
State highway 62 enters Cra
ter Lake national park sixty
eight miles from Medford. The
park was established in 1902 as
the sixth national park fn the
United States of America, its
establishment being for the pur
pose of preserving for the bene
fit and enjoyment of the people
an area which lends itself to
many types of all-year recrea
tion and an area which contains
not only several features of
great scientific value but also a
feature, namely, Crater Lake,
' -which is described frequently by
' world travelers in terms such as,
."One of the scenic wonders of
the world," and, 'The most
beautiful natural feature in
"America."
"' From the west or Medford
Rogue Wonderland entrance to
the park a drive of seven miles
through forests of pine, fir, and
hemlock brings us to Annie
Spring, a place long famous in
the history of the region. A na
tional park service ranger greets
us at Annie Spring. He not only
checks our car but gives us in
formation on facilities and fea
tures of the park.
Four miles above Annie
Spring we pass Park Headquar
ters. The Crater Lake post of
fice, administrative offices of
the park, and the residences of
park employees are located at
Park Headquarters. At the head
quarters area we find the Castle
Crest Wild Flower Garden. The
half mile' trail through the na
tural garden makes accessible
one of the most colorful concen
trations of alpine wild flowers
in Medford's Rogue Wonder
land.
A three-mile drive from Park
Headquarters brings us to the
rim of Crater Lake. There, 82
miles from Medford, we satisfy
our desire for a first view of the
lake. Other views will come in
rapid succession as we start on
the 34-mile drive on the rim road
which circles the lake, but first
let us become acquainted with
the services and facilities near
the terminus of the road from
Medford. This part of the crater
rim area is called the Rim Vil
lage. Hotel, cabin, store and
cafeteria facilities are available
in the park in the Rim Village.
There is a free public camp
ground in the Rim Village as
well as information service and
museum facilities.
Leaving the Rim Village we
proced clock-wise on the 34-mile
Rim Drive around Crater Lake.
Mileages indicated arc from the
Rim Village. A drive of four
miles brings us to The Watch
man parking area, not the first
lookout point reached on the
Rim Drive but certainly one of
the many lookout points at
which we should stop.
At The Watchman parking
area the highway comes out to
the very rim of the crater, af
fording an excellent view of the
entire lake. From this point on
the rim we are high enough to
look into the crater of Wizard
Island and to look down almost
1400 feet to the exceptionally
clear and colorful water in bays
near the island Skell Channel.
Yes, that object on the water is
a rowboat. The people in it are
fishing. To the right of the park-
AUTOMOBILE WINDOW
REGULATORS. DOOR
LOCKS. ETC.
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VMON CRSEK
MBDFORD
Crater Lake Rim Drive (A)
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Medford. south entrance checking station. (B) Park Kasdquar
tars, 79 miles from Medford, Milaage en Rim Drive frem Park
Headquarters. (C) Rim Village. 3 miles. (D) The Watchman. 7
miles. E North Entrance checking station, miles. F) Cleat,
wood Cove, 13 miles. (G) Cioudcap, 21 miles. (H) Ken Notch, 23
miles. (B) Park Headquarters, 33
lng area is the peak known as :
The Watchman. A trail leads to i
its summit. What is at the sum- j
mit? That is another of Med- j
ford's Rogue Wonderland trips. ,
To the left of the parking area
as we face the lake is Hillman!
Peak, the highest point on the
rim of Crater Lake. The peak is
named after the man who dis
covered the lake on June 12,
1853. Hillman Peak is 8,156 feet
above sea level, its summit ris
ing almost 2,000 feet above the
lake.
At 4.6 miles we turn out in
the parking area from which
one gets a fine view of the Cas
cade peaks to the north of Cra
ter Lake. There is Mount Thiel
sen. Mount Dailey, and Diamond
Peak, Nestled among those
peaks we see Diamond Lake.
Farther to the north are the
Three Sisters and many lesser
peaks, all of which are evidence
of geologically recent volcanic
activity.
At 5.S miles we see a sign in-
dincating the Devils' Backbone.
A hike of less than 100 yards
takes us out to the top of the
backbone from where we look
steeply down into the blue wat
ers of Crater Lake. It is a most
thrilling experience to see the
lake from the highest pinnacle
of the backbone.
At 8 miles we arrive at the
north entrance checking station.
The road to the left leads to Dir
mond Lake. On this trip we'll
continue on the rime drive to
the right.
Space does not permit even
mentioning each lookout point,
to say nothing of the particular
view and features that can be
seen from each. We must stop
at ' certain lookout points. The
first beyond the checking station
is Clectwood Cove, 10.6 miles
from the Rim Village. Looking
down we see the most colorful
water in the lake. The cove was
named for the boat that was
used in making the soundings of
the lake in 1886. From those
soundings Crater Lake can be
recognized .as the deepest lake
on the continent of North Amer
ica. Continuing, we pass Palisade
Point at 12.4 miles and Wine
glass at 13.4 miles. Skell Head
lookout at 14.8 miles is worth a
stop. The head bears the name
of a God of the ancient Klamath
Indians, as docs Llao Rock, that
great mass across the lake. From
the lookout we have an excel
lent view not only of Crater
Lay.: with its special features of
Wizard Islanc, Plantom Ship,
and Grotto Cove, but also of a
vast expanse of forest-mantled
mountain landscape to the north
and east of Crater Lake.
Leaving Skell Head we pass
Mount Scott on our left at 17.1
miles. Mount Scott rises to an
elevation of 8,938 feet; it is the
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CRATER LAKE
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RIM DRIVE
33 tllLEi
a
Annie Spring, 7S miles from
miles.
highest point in the park. The
fire lookout ranger stationed on
the summit of Scott during the
summer months lives in the cen
ter of an inspiring panorama of
scenery.
At 17.2 miles we arrive at the
Cioudcap Junction. Turning to
the right another mile of driving
takes us to the Cioudcap look
out, elevation 7,869 feet. It is
the -highest point on the Rim
Drive. Here we are over seven
teen hundred feet above the
lake.
Continuing, we pass Sentinel
Point at 20.8 miles. Following
the 300-yard trail to the very
end of the point, we get a
superb view of colorful Dutton
Cliff and the south wall of the
crater from which we started
our rim drive. At 21 miles we
pass Reflection Point. Kerr
Notch, the lowest point on the
crater rim, is reached at 23
miles.
Kerr Notch to many visitors !
is the most attractive part of the j
entire rim. Firs, hemlocks, and i
pines frame many interesting!
views of Phantom Ship. In the
morning hours the water below
the notch seems unusually blue,
while in the afternoon the Phan
tom Ship from Kerr Notch
seenls to sail into sunlit sea
of silver.
, Due to construction on the
eight-mile section of the new
highway between Kerr Notch
and Park Headquarters, it is
suggested that one bear left in
leaving lierr Notch. follnuHns
the paved highway three miles
to the Lost Creek ranger station,
ngm at mat point and
following the old rim road eight
miles to Park Headouartor.
While this portion of the rlriv.
oners no views of Crater lk
aoes aiford many excellent
views ot the Klamath valley and
the Cascade peaks to the south.
Arriving at Park Headouar.
ters we have completed the tour
around the Rim Drive of Crater
wine. An easy two-hour trip re
turns us to Medford in the heart
of the Rogue Wonderland. For
those planning to make this trip
particularly those visiting Cra
ter Lake for the first time, we
suggest the round trip from
Medford as an Ell-day trip. You
will want to make many stops
not only on the Rim Drive
around Crater Lake, but also at
points along the highway be
tween Medford and Crater Lake
national park.
Honolulu Clipper Sails.
San Francisco. July 27. fP
The Honolulu Clipper left the
seabase here at 12:09 a. m. to
day on Pan American Airways
second commercial flight In the
new San Francisco-Auckland,
New Zealand, service. Four
teen persons were aboard, all
company employes.
SWIM
IN DRINKING WATER
Children
20
rn suit)
Adults
20c
10c
ADULT CLASS
Continuing on Monday and Wednesday
Ttninot at 7:00 o'clock.
The water In this peat la ctoaAflec eaastaiMlf
and Is rblortnalea ta oieet state require nesta
MERRICK'S
Opto t p. m. until 1:41 f. m.
BLIND GENIUS OF
SALEM URGES AID
N MUSIC, ARIS
Portland. July 27. 1&
Mark Shoesmith. 28. blind Sa
lem youth who "flopped beau
tifully" as a musician, only to
become famous as a sculptor,
pleaded today for similar train
ing for all blind youths.
Shoesmith, a University of
Oregon graduate in 1934, has
been giving demonstrations of
his work at the New York
world's fair and teaching 33
students the plastic art at the
New York institute for the edu
cation of the blind.
Of his music, Shoesmith said:
I spent more time trying to
get out of practice than 1 should
admit, but somehow 1 couldn't
take to music."
Sculpture for the blind, he
said on a visit here with his
wife, should be a function "to
give the students a satisfactory
medium of expression" an avo
cation, not a vocation.
Shoesmith is now completing
work for a master's degrecat
Columbia univers;v. His sculp
tures have drawn wide atten
tion.
TROEH CAPTURES
TRAPSHOOT TOGA
Portland, Ore., Ju 27. (V)
Frank Troeh of Portland cap
tured his second title in as many
days today in the Pacific inter
national trapshoot here.
The Oregon veteran defeated
Gene Robertson, 17-year-old
from Los Angeles, in a shoot-;
off for the doubles champion-:
ship, 28 to 25. They had tied,
with 113 out of 120 targets.
Competition was keen in the
first half of the 16-yard shoot
which ends tomorrow. H. E.
Woolsey of The Dalles broke
100 to finish a point ahead of
Ray .Glass. Eugene; Dean Hurt,
Salt Lake City: O. E, Fine, La
Grange, Cel.; Roy Turner, Port
land, and Gene Robertson, Los
Angeles, all with 99s,
Scores in the 16-yard shpot
included; S. G. Mendcnhall,
97, and H. Croisant of Grants
Pass, 98i E. H. Lamport. Med
ford, 92; A, L. Bowser, Grants
Pass, 68,
MEXICAN OILMEN
FAVOR CARDENAS
Mexico City, July 27. UP)
Mexico's powerful petroleum
workers union, 18.000 strong,
took drastic measures today
against efforts to enforce Presi
dent Lazaro Cardenas" recent
decrees for economy in the gov
ernment oil industry.
The union told the general
manager and general sales man -
ager of the government oil
ministration it would do "every
thing possible" to have them
ousted from office and, as a
trump card, reportedly was
ready to call a strike of its 18.
000 members at 10 a.m., next
Monday,
Idaho Day at Fair.
San Francisco, July 27. Wl
The gem state of Idaho came
into the limelight at the Gol
den Gate exposition amid thou
sands of visitors today.
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Iron 2 00
Minimum raTCS
Mormon Meteor Smashes World
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Ab Jenkins, famous racing ma?er of Salt Lake CM?, sat a new world 24 sours speed
record when ha drova 3868 miles it an average spaed oi 161.18 miles per hour on Bonne
villa Salt Flats. The sleek streamlined car that was powered with regular stock Gllmore Elhrl
gasoline Is pictured above on the famous saline course.
NAVY YARD CITY
SHORT OF ROMS;
RENTS SKY HIGH
Bremerton, Wash., July 27. :
i) With rents sky high and
families forced to sleep in jail,
on the grass in the city park.!
in parked automobiles or in
ents pitched at the cily's out
skirts, a newly created housing
authority today plunged into
the problem plaguing this navy
yard city.
Eugene C, Searle was appoint
ed executive secretary of the
Bremerton municipal housing
authority which plans a $3,000,
000 home building project with
federal aid.
The navy yard payroll Is
higher than at any time since
She world war. There are about
7,800 persons employed, and
more being hired. But new
comers can't find lodging, and
what is available is priced
steeply.
At police headquarters, an of
ficer said as many as six and
seven newcomers are sheltered
In the city Jail in a night.
"And they have money in
their pockets, too," said a desk
officer. "They're not bums and
they have good Jobs."
Bremerton's population is 15.
000, an increase of 5,000 over
the 1930 census, and the 15,000
does not include navy yard per
sonnel. COURSE OF TRUE .
LOVE NOT SMOOTH
Seattle, July 27. W Sixteen-year-old
Edith Ceroid was
separated from her 31-year-old
school teacher husband, Char
les Ceroid, today while her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Good
rich, police and her husband
sought to untangle their diffi
culties. i . . ' Who K.
luiu girt a uaicins outiuk
the ceremony, the parents ob
jected and called police. Both
said they wished to remain mar
ried. Ceroid first met the girl when
she was 11 years old, while he
was teaching in Sumas, What
com county, and he fell in love
with her then. Police Capt. L.
L. Norton said.
At Olympia, it was disclosed
Mrs. Gerold gave her age as
19 and Gerold as "legal."
HoTeL MANX
C. Crtteh)o
Jioel O. Wjlie
Co-managers
EXPOSURE OEATH
DEFENDANT CRAZY
Shoshone, Idaho, July 27,
iiP) Chester Phillips, one of
four charged with murder in
the exposure death of his
father-in-law, was committed to
the slate mental hospital to
day. Philips, 22, alarmed Lincoln
county authorities by hysterical
activities and wild cries.
In hearing before Probate
Judge Howard Adkins he was
adjudged insane.
Phillips, with his wife and
her two brothers, is accused of
trussing Charles Sanders, 48,
hand and foot and leaving him
to die on the desert.
Prosecutor C. C. Shaw said
the demented man had been
climbing bars at the front of
his county jail cell and throw
ing himself upon the floor.
He also had refused food and
his shouts were audible in court
house offices some distance
away.
With his wife, Flossie, 18,
and her two brothers, George
Sanders, 18, and Joseph San-1-ers,
20, Phillips had been await
ing district court trial next No
vember.
LEAFLETS WAFTED
ON FRENCH SOIL
Vichy, July 27. IJTt French
anti-aircraft batteries fired on
a British plane dropping propa
ganda pamphlets over Vichy
Friday night and drove the flier
away. The plane took advantage
of a thick fog to approach this
provisional capital.
C'otmc Ume foi Too Lata to !
!ff Ada li 19 p. m.
YES sr, with bij, strap
ping, brand-new 1940
Ouick in your garage you've
really got something You've
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asset that you can use
joy ami really get tome benefit from.
A hundred-plus husky horsepower
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So why not do the smart thing? Make
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Speed Record
SEEK SPIRIT TO
GIVE TESTIMONY
N DIVORCE CASE
Los Angeles, July 27. tfft
A process server is hunting
"Sho Sha," a spirit! to appear
when the contested divorce suit
of Mrs, Lillian Boyce against
Dr. William A, Boyce, wealthy
Hollywood eye specialist, is re
sumed Monday.
Mrs. Boyce. 56, denied in tes
timony that Sho Sha was ever
her "soul mate, as her hus
band charges.
"I don't believe In soul
mates," she dciared. "The
spirit was a teacher who visit:
ed the meetings I attended with
Mrs. Loretta Jlian, the spirit
ualist. The spirit's real name
is Sheiand Shaimwnd.
S. S. Hahn, her iawycT. who
had the subpoena issued for;
Sho Sha, said "every effort will :
be made to get him to testify
and if necessary to establish the
proper seance conditions, we
will ask for a night court ses
sion. Mrs. Boyce charges her hus
band mistreated her for the past
five years. He counters with
the accusation that she neglect
ed him lor Sho Sha and other
ghosts.
ETHIOPIA READY
TO FIGHT ITALY
London, July 28. (Sunday! j
Wr Sylvia Pankhurst, sur-j
gette who now is sponsoring
Ethiopia's cause, was quoted teyj
the Stinday Graphic today as
asserting that thousands of Ethl-1
and en
7y -V'. -Wrtpm,.m
1 ' - aaaaf
start -and take advan
tage of low prices
that currently
for the business coupe, delivered at
Flint, Mich,; transportation based oa
rail rates, state and local taxes (if any),
optional equipment and accessories
extra.
Your Buick dealer's waiting
go see htm for details of the best
deal in town.
4 1'ruri tubjett to cltangt witkaut notice.
cpians ask only for firearms and
British air support "and they
promise they will dear Italy
from Africa,"
According to Mia Pankhurst,
the newspaper said, small Ethi
opian bands have made repeated
attacks en Kalian outposts, ac
quiring arms so that they grad
ually have become efficient,
modern, equipped army,"
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