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These maps have been created over the years to capture local knowledge that was not available in government or commercial maps. Click on a map for a high resolution image.

1925 Map of Mountaineers Summer Outing

 

Map included in the materials for the 1925 Summer Outing from Snoqualmie Pass to Mount Stuart.

1931 Snoqualmie Pass Map

Drawn from USFS and USGS maps by H. V. Strandberg & H. R. Morgan, November 1931

Some notable features on this map:

  1. Alaska Lake was called Lake Gingerless
  2. Lots of trail routes in Commonwealth Basin up to Lundin, Red and Kendall
  3. The west tunnel entrance at Rockdale shows several structures
  4. Mountaineers Snoqualmie Lodge by Lodge Lake, with trail straight up from the highway
  5. Trail directly up ridge west of Rocky Run (since destroyed by logging)
  6. Rampart Lakes not noted
  7. "The Dome" by Snoqualmie Mountain is named
  8. Bryant Peak is very close to Chair. Current Bryant Peak is where Hemlock Peak is on this map
  9. Snow Lake trail goes by Source Lake
  10. Trail down the Pratt Valley is west of the river, not along the future RR grade east of the river.
  11. The Tooth is accessed from the Denny Creek side
  12. Wright Mountain is attached to a subpeak of Roosevelt, not to the high point north of Gem Lake where it is now.

1933 Rainier Boy Scout Map

Troop 65 Boy Scout trips to Rainier by C. E. Schurman

In The Challenge of Rainier, Dee Molenaar says

Clark Schurman served as chief guide from 1939 through 1942. A widower most of his life, Schurman
devoted his abundant energy and talent to Scout activities and to developing mountaineering
techniques and a philosophy oriented to safety

 

1952 Snoqualmie Pass Map

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
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