Larch Summit before all that cement was poured on it

[Chase]

[bobcat]

Thanks for posting - Do you know the date of the photo? It sure looks different there today!

[Chase]

1919.

[Peabody]

Here's another from 1910. Link

This most likely is a 1910 view from the top. Link

I can't get the Flickr image imbedded in the thread.

[Chase]

Those are great, Peabody. I think they cemented it around '38 when the WPA and the FS built the road to the summit.

[zee]

I see a pair of snowshoes in Chase's first photograph

[retired jerry]

It's funny, the things that were done way back then that would be inappropriate now

Like cementing Larch

or the Eagle Creek trail wouldn't probably be done

[kepPNW]

I can't get the Flickr image imbedded in the thread.

With Flicker, you have to...

• * Click on the photo,
  * Click the "View all sizes" link,
  * Snarf the path to the image then presented, or
  * Pick another size, then get the path to the image from that.

I see a pair of snowshoes in Chase's first photograph

Hey, those look just like the ones I used last time I was on snowshoes!

[zee]

It's funny, the things that were done way back then that would be inappropriate now

For sure I though you were going to write: snowshoeing to the summit of Larch from (where?) without synthetic fabrics or electronics. off topic: is there a thru-hiker contingent that eschews modern materials and equipment etc...?

[payslee]

off topic: is there a thru-hiker contingent that eschews modern materials and equipment etc...?

Horse packers are as close as you'd come, although even they would use (I assume?) water-proof camping equipment and would carry stoves / fuel.

Early (settler) mountaineering/exploring in the Pacific Northwest was almost always done with the assistance of horses and mules. Not many seem to PCT that way any more, but it could be done in theory.

-payslee