The Oregon Skyline Trail : A History
The Oregon Skyline Trail : A History
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Author(s): Voelz, Glenn
ISBN No.: 9781467157056
Pages: 192
Year: 202405
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 34.49
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available (Forthcoming)

The Skyline Trail began as a network of footpaths created by Oregon's Indigenous tribes. Early fur traders and explorers followed in their steps, seeking safe routes over the unmapped Cascades. Judge John Breckenridge Waldo later spent decades exploring the mountain trail between Mount Hood and Crater Lake and led the campaign for the area's preservation. During the 1920s, the US. Forest Service briefly considered turning the path into a scenic .highway and sent one of its first recreational specialists, Frederick Cleator, to blaze a prospective route through the mountains. But when the highway proved impractical, the Skyline was reinvented, becoming the foundation of America's greatest long-distance hiking trail. Join author Glenn Voelz as he recounts this fascinating history.



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