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MTR.2025.13 Kinzebach Pic-Tour Guide Maps

MTR.2025.13 Kinzebach Pic-Tour Guide Maps

Mountaineers catalog number: MTR.2025.13

Born in 1915, Robert M. Kinzebach became an avid hiker during high school in Wenatchee. He later served as chief meteorologist at McChord Air Force Base, with the rank of Colonel. He started a map business in the 1970s and continued to publish and sell maps through the 1990s. The business grew through word of mouth and exposure in Pack & Paddle and Signpost magazines and the Wenatchee World newspaper.

In the 1990s Kinzebach self-published an 8-1/2 x 11” spiral-bound paperback book titled Exploring the Roads and Trails of the Cascades and Olympics of Washington State from age 17 to 75+ (KM01, 90pp, included in this collection). The book contains stories from Kinzebach’s life, photocopies of pictures, published articles, essays, and weather forecasting tips. According to the book, Kinzebach’s Pic-Tour Guide Maps were available for sale by mail order only.

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Following Kinzebach’s death in 1996, his map collection was donated to Scouts. The maps lingered in storage until 2016, when Carl Mealy contacted The Mountaineers about the collection. According to Mealy, the collection included copies of about two-thirds of the items originally published. Monty VanderBilt accepted the collection and it was placed into storage in the map case in the library at the Mountaineers Program Center in Seattle. The collection consists of two copies of each available map. Excess copies were discarded. Maps that were unfolded when donated were stored that way in the map case.

An inventory created by Monty VanderBilt of the Mountaineers History Committee was scanned to a PDF file and saved here:

We have paper copies of every map in the inventory except KA01 and KA10 which are noted in the inventory as “digital only.” Monty VanderBilt recalls that he borrowed those maps to scan them. All maps scanned by Monty can be found here: Custom Maps

Code

Year

Map Description

Qty

Box

Code

Year

Map Description

Qty

Box

KN01

1972

Mt Baker, North Cascades NP

2

1

KN02

1986

Lake Chelan Basin

2

1

KN03

1986

Diablo and Ross Dams, Western Pasayten Wilderness

2

1

KN04

1987

Eastern Pasayten Wilderness

2

1

KN05

1988

Bellingham, Sedro Wooley, Mt Baker

2

1

KN06

1989

Bellingham, Sumas, Mt Baker

2

1

KA01

1976

Ice Peaks, Enchantments, Alpine Lakes

0

N/A

KA02

1977

Alpine Lakes (Snoqualmie Pass to Deep Lake)

2

1

KA03

1978

Alpine Lakes (Deception Pass to Stevens Pass)

2

1

KA04

1980

Alpine Lakes Wilderness packet

2

2

KA05

1981

Alpine Lakes Wilderness supplement

2

1

KA06

1986

Alpine Lakes Wilderness (east), PCT to Glacier Peak

2

1

KA07

1988

Alpine Lakes Wilderness (west, Pacific Crest Trail)

2

1

KA08

1989

Alpine Lakes featuring Enchantment Lakes area

2

1

KA09

1996

Foss River, Necklace Valley

2

1

KA10

1993

Alpine Lakes Wilderness, Snoqualmie Pass Area

0

N/A

KC01

1978

Monte Cristo, Glacier Pk Wilderness, North Cascades NP

2

2

KC02

1979

Monte Cristo and vicinity supplement

2

2

KC03

1981

Mountain Loop Highway

2

1

KC04

1984

Cascade Mountain foothills 1 (central Puget Sound)

2

1

KC05

1987

Cascade Mountain foothills 2 (southern Puget Sound)

2

1

KC06

1988

Cascade Mountain foothills 3 (northern Puget Sound)

2

1

KC07

1988

Supplement to Cascade Mountain foothills 3

2

1

KC08

1990

Cascade Mountain foothills 3A (incl. Ptarmigan Traverse)

2

1

KC09

1990

Cascade Mountain foothills 3B

2

1

KC10

1985

Wenatchee Mountains

2

1

KC11

1996

Icicle Creek / Chiwaukum Mountains

2

1

KC12

1996

Stevens Pass

2

1

KS01

1976

Mt Rainer National Park

2

2

KS02

1982

Mt Rainier & Adjoining Cascades

2

1

KS03

1985

Mt Rainier National Park, Packwood / Randle

2

1

KS04

1985

Greenwater / Naches / Crystal Mtn

2

1

KS05

1987

Easton / Cle Elum / Greenwater

2

1

KS06

1989

Chinook Pass / Naches

2

1

KS07

1988

Mt Adams / Mt St Helens

2

1

KS08

1980

Mt St Helens supplement

2

1

KS09

1983

White Pass / Goat Rocks Recreation Area

2

1

KS10

1988

White Pass / Goat Rocks / Rimrock Lake / Tieton

2

1

KS11

1996

White Pass / Goat Rocks

2

1

KS12

1995

Rimrock Lake (12 color photos)

2

1

KS13

1995

Spiral Butte, Crystal Mtn, etc (12 color photos)

2

1

KO01

1982

Olympic National Park

2

1

KO02

1982

Olympic Mountains east

2

1

KO03

1982

Olympic Mountains west

2

1

Box 2 also contains two copies of Stilliquamish-Sauk-Suiattle Recreation Area, a two-sided map of the Mt Baker National Forest published by the US Forest Service.