July 14
Lakee-Looney wedding on the Rim.
July 20
A Lodge girl is struck by a visitor’s car while jogging out near Discovery Point. A broken pelvis.
July 21
The Wayne Taylor wedding, from Madison, Wisconsin, is held at Grouse Hill Picnic Area.
July 23
A 15 year-old boy falls on the Watchman while cutting trail. The boy slides the full distance, ending up with a concussion.
July 24
The Lodge’s garbage truck rolls across the parking area behind the Cafeteria and crashes into a sleeping cottage, opening up the whole front of the cabin. The family occupying the cottage had vacated only minutes before the accident.
August
Rim Run Winners
Men: 6.7 John Powell Klamath Falls, Oregon 34.15
13.0 Glen Jobe Alturas, California 1:22.43
26.2 Martin Balding Altaloma, California 2:55.29
Women 6.7 Wendy Roberts Klamath Falls, Oregon 44.22
13.0 Shelly Briggs Eugene, Oregon 1:43.40
26.2 Jeanne Ottoman Klamath Falls, Oregon 3:52.41
August 10
Carl Long, Official Court Reporter from The Dalles, Oregon reports reading a court report several years ago that described a trial for several men accused of murdering a victim at Crater Lake in the 1920’s.
August 24
Seasonal Ranger Susie Stecker experiences an armed robbery while on duty at the North Entrance. Robbery is a aborted by choice when the assailant discovers only $35 in the till. The criminal sped away in a white Ford Pinto.
August 26
Wayne Ruedz of Minnesota rides his bike through the Park on a 23,000 mile trip to the tip of South America. Ruedz has traveled 8,000 miles so far, starting in Alaska on May 2. Averaging $7.00 per day, Wayne estimates the bike trip will take 18 to 24 months.
Summer
Oregon’s only Peregrine falcon nest located on a ledge below a cliff overhang, inside the Caldera eastern rim. Two fledglings are successfully raised. A third egg was found in the nest, but it failed to hatch. Tests show a 15% reduction in shell thickness due to DDT. Hopes are high.
Water year: 66.79 inches of precipitation
September 1
22 elk (3 bulls and 19 cows and calves) are observed at 5:30 a.m. on Pumice Flat, below Rim Village. Latter in the day,16 elk are spotted at Vidae Falls.
September 2
Vern Sumner, 34 Irving Road, Eugene, Oregon, copyrights a disaster movie scrip about Crater lake’s west wall collapsing and destroying Diamond Lake and Roseburg.
September 2
Scott and Pam Burnett attempt to be married on Wizard Island, but bad weather and 1.20 inches of rain force the wedding party back to Cleetwood Cove. The groom asks Ranger Mykal Ryan, who he had just met on the boat, to be his best man.
October 2
Bear killed by injection by Ranger Mark Forbes in Mazama Campground. The bear had been trapped 8 times, once in Union Creek, since 1972 and had been picked up many (for a bear) bad habits.
October 8
After first being spotted by Ranger Larry Smith, two would be canoeists are fined $25 for launching two canoes on the Lake and camping on Wizard Island. Ranger Jim Donovan made contact with the two at 9:00 p.m. after kayaking to the island in his own kayak. The first midnight Lake kayak operation on record.
Season Visitation: 445,397
