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Snoqualmie Pass Region showing trails & routes for "valley pointer" & "peak bagger" by H. R. Morgan, July 1952

Some notable features on this map:

  1. Mountaineers lodge appears
  2. Sunset Highway shown, predating I-90
  3. The railroad line and stations are still shown
  4. LeanTo at Camp Lookout on the Pratt Lake trail
  5. No logging roads shown in the South Fork valley or around Mt Margaret
  6. A trail goes past Kaleetan Lake and over the ridge to near Lake Caroline
  7. Rock Creek and Goat Creek trails are shown with equal prominence
  8. Lots of trails are shown in the Gold Creek valley most of which are now overgrown
  9. Pratt Valley trail connects to the lake, now badly overgrown
  10. Mineral Mountain was still in transition to being called it's current name of Three Queens
  11. Snow Lake trail route still goes by Source Lake

1959 Pete Steele maps

Born in Tacoma in 1922, Pete Steele moved to Seattle as an infant. He attended school there and graduated from the University of Washington. During World War II he was a photographer in the Air Force in both the European and Pacific area. He returned to Seattle where he resided until coming to Ardenvoir in 1961 where he was a watchman at the mill. Pete was troubled by the pace of logging in the high country in the 1950s and 60s. He hiked extensively and produced two maps under the label "Washington Mountain Maps" which show a remarkable knowledge of the area at the time. An index map makes it clear that he had ambitions to produce many more such maps, but these are the only two that he completed and are reproduced here with permission from his sister. Pete died at age 54 in 1976.

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1959 Washington Mountain Maps by Pete Steele, Big Snow Quad.

 

Image Added1960 Washington Mountain Maps by Pete Steele, Mt Daniel Quad.