[pct-l] PCT Signs

[chiefcowboy at verizon.net]

Yup.  That wasn't made at a sign shop in Bishop.

-----Original Message----- 
From: dofdear aka Thumper
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 10:22 PM
To: pct-l at backcountry.net
Subject: [pct-l] PCT Signs

This tread has gotten confused.  Check out

http://www.ebay.com/itm/PACIFIC-CREST-TRAIL-SIGN-/230701882706?pt=LH_Default
Domain_0&hash=item35b6e75d52

This appears to be the blaze that is of questionable origin.  Somehow the
seller ‘Alpinesigns’ got into the mix.  Atomic4 is the seller of the $199
“PACIFIC CREST TRAIL SIGN” in question.

This is his description;  PACIFIC CREST TRAIL SYSTEM TRAIL SIGN   VERY OLD
PORCELAIN ON STEEL.
This sign has been in the family for decades.  I do not know when  or where
it came from.  My dad worked on Ross dam in what is now the North Cascades
National Park of Washington State.  That was in the late 40's.  There was
only a train track up the Skagit river then.  The train stopped at the town
of Diablo.  The train cars, cement and other building materials, were pulled
up the mountain several hundred feet, sideways, on a lift.  The track then
continued a short distance to Diablo Dam where the train cars were loaded on
barges and pulled up the lake to the construction site of Ross dam.  The
road goes to the town of Diablo now but the lift is still there and the only
way to get to Ross Dam is by boat, plane or walk.  The construction workers
stayed in bunk houses for weeks at a time and would come out usually every
other weekend.  So in the summer being the mountain rat he was he spent a
lot of time fishing for Cutthroat trout.   This sign might have came from
one of these expeditions.  Or it might have been from the late 50's when the
North Cross Highway was being constructed through what is now the North
Cascades National Park.  This road cut through miles of pristine wilderness
and crossed the crest trail.  Well anyway, the sign is old and they probably
disappeared from the trees decades ago, now they use those tacky aluminum
ones.  About 50% of the glaze remains.  The center is a tall tree and around
the perimeter is PACI.... .REST   TR... ...TEM.   I doubt if you will ever
see another one of these.


Maybe we should take up a collection, buy the blaze and donate it to the
PCTA.  Thoughts?

Thumper aka dofdear


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