Was Rim Village the focus of operations?
Right.
It seems like it’s more dispersed now because of the way things have gone.
That’s my impression. The day [recently] I was up there and seeing all the different facilities available, additional trails for example, it seems to be much more spread over a larger area. But, you are correct; the focus of all the activities was on the Rim Village, with the exception of the Mazama Campground. We also tried to do one or two programs a week at the Pinnacles [Lost Creek] Campground.
Sort of an evening program?
An evening program, right, without the benefit of slides. We’d take things out. Maybe we’d take out study skins or something of that nature. It was very impromptu. Generally, one person would go out there, and I know my program on Indian Legends and Historical Highlights of Crater Lake was very easy to give out there because it was just like narrating a story.
You’d build a campfire….
Build a campfire, right. It was very, oh, more typical of a traditional campfire type of activity. That came about when Bruce came into the position of chief naturalist.
In regard to the boat trip, when I arrived the boat trip did leave from just below the cafeteria, across from Wizard Island. That trail was somewhat more difficult than the Cleetwood Trail (4). As I recall, it was either 1.7 or 1.9 miles down to the boat landing, and it [the boat trip] took off from there to Wizard Island and then on around. As I recall, we had two excursions-a morning and afternoon trip, weather permitting.
Was it sort of a counter-clockwise trip from the island around the lake?
Let’s see. It seems to me we went from the boat landing to Wizard Island, and then we’d head on over to the Phantom Ship and that direction.
