Containers:

Box-folder 23-52

Identifier:

Series 4

Dates:

1933-1992

Extent:

30 boxes

Scope and content:

Rogers parlayed his backpacking expertise and PCT connections into various business ventures including numerous publications (Western Camping Magazine, PCT Quarterly, Camp Directors Digest, PCT Voice, the PCT Relays booklet), his PCT Pocket Guide maps and the Food Pack service which supplied meals to hikers along the trail. The folders are arranged alphabetically by name of product, service or related subject. Rogers set up trail registers at certain points along PCT and excerpts from those logs are in this series, some of which have Polaroids of the hikers attached. His position as elder PCT statesman brought him in contact with hikers from all over the world, as shown in the "Hikers, PCT" folders.

For the Camp Directors Digest publication, Rogers collected research data from camps across America, and these files are arranged alphabetically by camp name in Boxes 50-52 (Series 4c). The maps he used for trail update information are also in a separate section, Boxes 34-48 (Series 4a). These boxes are initially arranged by state - Washington, Oregon and California (which reflects the preferred PCT route by hikers) - and then alphabetically by national forest or other geographic area. Box 48 contains maps for British Columbia, Idaho and Nevada. Box 49 contains Series 4b, the over-sized PCT-related maps.

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