Custom Maps
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
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:
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1933 Rainier Boy Scout Map
Troop 65 Boy Scout trips to Rainier by C. E. Schurman In The Challenge of Rainier, Dee Molenaar says
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1949 Mountaineers Summer Outing map
The 1949 summer outing began with a camp at the Trinity Mine in the upper Chiwawa River valley. From there camps were made at Buck Creek Pass, Image Lake, and Lyman Lake. At that time there was no trail over Spider Gap so the group split with the "backtrackers" heading back over Buck Creek Pass with the pack animals and the "backpackers" continuing on to Spider Meadows and a camp at Leroy Creek. Climbing activities included Glacier Peak, a spectacular rock climb of Sitting Bull, and a beautiful day on Chiwawa Mountain. A humorous "Report to the Sock Holders" by Ellen Wash can be found in the 1949 Mountaineers Annual. |
1952 Snoqualmie Pass Map
Snoqualmie Pass Region showing trails & routes for "valley pounder" & "peak bagger" by H. R. Morgan, July 1952 Some notable features on this map:
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Pete Steele maps
Born in Tacoma in 1922, Pete Steele moved with his family 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 arenas. 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.
1959 Washington Mountain Maps by Pete Steele, Big Snow Quad. | |
1960 Washington Mountain Maps by Pete Steele, Mt Daniel Quad. |
Robert Kinzebach Pic-Tour Guide maps
Robert Kinzebach became hooked on back country hiking during high school in Wenatchee. This lifelong interest was enhanced by the formation of a map business in the 1970s that continued for over 20 years. During this period high quality USGS topo maps were updated infrequently and were relatively expensive. Pic-Tour marketing was primarily by word of mouth, supplemented by advertisements in Pack & Paddle and Signpost magazines, and in the Wenatchee World newspaper. The Mountaineers map collection includes approximately 50 Pic-Tour maps, most of which are those published in the 1980s and 1990s.
The Mountaineer's Pic-Tour Guide maps were donated to the archive in 2017 by Carl Mealy representing the Boy Scouts. Carl wrote
Robert Kinzebach was an avid hiker and photographer in the Pacific Northwest. He documented his hikes in detail. He authored and published hiking information as Pic-Tour guides and maps in the 1970's and 80's. In total, he produced over 50 guides and maps. He passed away in 1996.
His collection was donated to scouts. For some maps and guides there were many copies, for others few to none. Many copies of the guides and maps were distributed. After several years. the map copies that remained were put into storage. We recently rediscovered the collection. Copies still exist for about two-thirds of what was originally published.
The Kinzebach items have been grouped into 6 categories. The original maps did not have a consistent naming or numbering scheme so this provides a way to organize them by geography.
- KM - Miscellaneous
- KA - Alpine Lakes
- KN - North (Lake Chelan, Ross Lake, Pasayten, Baker)
- KC - Central (Foothills, Mountain Loop, Icicle Creek, Stevens Pass)
- KS - South (Rainier, Adams, Goat Rocks, St Helens)
- KO - Olympics