News & Features The Hiker Quiz! Test your wilderness trivia knowledge Quiz by Gary Zink and Jan Klippert Trail trivia The hikers I know tend to like trivial knowledge. Important things, but 1. After the Columbia River and the tiny things. Like how to get to that Sacramento River, this river is the third little alpine tarn by following those largest-volume river on the west coast 22 switchbacks, taking a right at of the contiguous United States. An the junction with Trail 10054-21, astonishing 387 glaciers and more than and ascending 253.3 feet to a small 2,900 streams that feed this river. It’s the cairn, turning right... well, you get largest watershed in Puget Sound. Name the idea. the river: _______________________ Get a group of hikers together, and 2. The two glaciers on either side of the they’ll share stories, little tidbits of Muir snowfield on Mount Rainier are: information, and trivia. Where’s the world’s largest Douglas Fir? Who a. Emmons and Winthrop named Spark Plug Mountain? What b. Paradise and Nisqually the heck is a Noisy-Diobsud? c. Kautz and Nisqually Our trails and wildlands are packed 3. What’s the common name for the bird with all sorts of interesting factoids. that steals the cookie you set down on And leave it to two seasoned hiking a rock next to you? ________________ veterans—Jan Klippert and Gary _____________ Zink—to test the rest of us. They’ve 4. Name the evergreen tree with the clocked thousands of miles on trail, drooping top that is Washington’s official whether hiking or sawing out blow- state tree: ______________________ downs. These guys know their stuff. So sharpen your number 2 pencils 5. Name the three most common North- and see if you’re any match for their west alpine flowers whose names end in wits.—Andrew Engelson “lily.” ____________ , _____________ , and ________________________. April 2007 WASHINGTON TRAILS The Hiker Quiz 14. The sound of seedpods, not 20. This well known champion of trails snakes, gave ___________________ and a WTA founder is memorialized on a Ledge in the Cascade foothills its rebuilt route which leads to the summit name. WTA recently built a new trail of Bandera Mountain: ______________ here. _________________ 15. At the summit of Mailbox Peak, 21. Formerly the Burlington Northern west of Snoqualmie Pass, you’ll find: railroad across Stevens Pass, this trail a. a mailbox was reconstructed by volunteer organi- b. fire hydrant zations as a hiking route between Scenic c. a ladder and “the tunnel.” __________________ d. all of the above _________________ 6. This peak in Olympic National Park 16. This mountain, named after the 22. A newly designated trail from Ya- is named for the highest mountain in snow collected in its west-facing kima to Ohanapecosh celebrates the Greece, traditionally regarded as the gullies, can be seen from I-5 east of work and life of this celebrated Yakima heavenly abode of the gods and the Everett and is accessed from Trail 641: resident and champion of wilderness throne of Zeus: __________________ a. Three Fingers and conservation: ________________ 7. This mountain pass was named after b. White Horse Mountain ___________________ Washington’s first territorial governor: c. Big Four Mountain 23. This 93-mile trail completely circum- _____________________________ 17. The abbreviated name for the navigates Mount Rainier: ____________ 8. What kind of trout is the official Wash- 2,650-mile national scenic trail ________________________________ ington state fish? stretching across the crest of Califor- nia, Washington and Oregon is the a. bull trout ______. b. rainbow trout c. steelhead 18. A champion of trail maintenance is now memorialized by this trail to Wal- 9. Washington state’s official flower can lace Lake: _______________________ often be found lining the trail to Buck- horn Peak in the Olympics. What is it? 19. Once built by a Verlot CCC team _______________________________ during the 1930s, this trail was recon- structed in the 1990s by a member of 10. This non-evergreen mountain tree that original CCC team after he retired: is different from most conifers because ______________________________ it is deciduous—that is, it loses its needles each fall. It withstands very cold temperatures (to -50 degrees F) and turns bright yellow in the fall. What is it? Where are we? Match the locations on the left and right. ________________________________ 11. Name the river and village on Lake 24. Three Prune Camp: ______ Chelan whose name means “the way a. Mount Adams 25. The Bailey Range: ______ through.” _______________________ b. On the southwest shoulder of 26. Dirty Harry’s Balcony: ______ 12. The highest mountain in Washing- Mount Baker near Park Butte ton that is not a volcano (or part of 27. Irving Pass and Poe c. Lake Washington Mountain: ______ one) is: d. A high route between The Cat 28. Takoma: _______ a. Mount Shuksan Walk and Dodwell-Rixon Pass. b. Bonanza Peak 29. Kulshan: ______ e. Skyline Trail, Olympics c. Mount Stuart 30. The Railroad Grade: _____ f. Mount St. Helens 13. What is the popular name of the val- 31. Mount Louwala, or Loo-wit: g. Poets Ridge ley where a hiker would find Jewel, Opal, _____ h. Mount Baker Emerald, Jade and Locket Lakes? 32. Pa-toe, also known as Mount i. A trail near North Bend a. West Fork Foss Klickitat: ______ j. Mount Rainier b. The Enchantments 33. At-sar-kal, or D’wamish: _____ c. Necklace Valley WASHINGTON TRAILS April 2007 The Hiker Quiz Trail Mix: Fill the blanks on the left with the correct answer on the right: 34. __________ and ________ Lakes located west of the PCT near Scrabble Mountain in Snohomish County, a. Wild Sky reminded early map makers of things that might be found at coffee or afternoon tea. b. Valhalla 35. A map maker surveying a ridge Hiking Heroes: leading to Excelsior Pass, Trail 625 People and Trails in Washington in Whatcom County, saw two small 44. _________________ was the first su- lakes. When asked the names of the perintendent of the U. S. Forest Service. lakes the surveyor replied gruffly c. Rainy His name was given to Washington’s “_________________!” Today they are Columbia National Forest in 1949. known by his answer. 45. The energy of guidebook author 36. __________ Pass, at elevation 7,800 ___________________ helped create feet, in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness, is the Issaquah Alps. He also founded the named after the citadel of the gods in d. Spark Plug North Cascades Conservation Council. Norse mythology. 46. ______________ was a founder of 37. Prusik Peak, Gnome Tarn, and Nada WTA and a great supporter of creating Lake are all found in the ___________ the PCT. She was also the first editor of ____________. e. Damfino Signpost magazine. 38. __________ is the name of the pro- 47. ______________, a botanist from posed wilderness east of Index, which Scotland, walked and canoed 6,037 miles will include Skykomish Peak, Mount of Washington and Oregon between Baring and Kodak Peak. 1825 and 1826 and identified pseudo- 39. __________ mountain near Wash- f. Aasgard tsuga Menziesi, a tree whose common ington Pass, visible from the North name honors this explorer. Cascades Highway, has the same name 48. Washington’s U.S. Senator ______ as a high school in Winthrop/Twisp. __________________ helped pass the Wilderness Act, as well as guiding pas- 40. __________ Pass, where the PCT g. Chelan/Sawtooth Summit sage of North Cascades National Park. crosses the North Cascades Highway, might also describe Seattle’s weather. A wilderness area is named for him. 41. A prospector in the North Cascades 49. California writer and conservationist named his mule _______________, after __________________ is honored with comic strip character Barney Google’s h. Cup and Saucer the name of a permanent camp at eleva- race horse. He then gave a lake and a tion 10,000 feet on Mount Rainier. mountain the same name. 50. Mount ______________ is a 5,478- 42. Lake __________, north of Stevens foot mountain to the west of Mount Rainier, named for the family members Pass on the PCT, is easily accessible i. Liberty Bell from Smith Brook Road, and received of climbers Mesler and LaWall, who first its name from Norse mythology: the summitted the peak in 1897. They named place where Odin received the souls of it by combining the first letters of their heroes slain in battle. family members’ names: Alex, Burgon, Clara, Elizabeth, Isabel, Jessie and Lucy. 43. __________Trail intrigues the hiker j. Enchantments Rearrange the first letters a,b,c,e, i, j, and with such places as Summer Blossom, l to find the answer. Merchant Basin and Purple Mountain. Answers on the next page! April 2007 WASHINGTON TRAILS Answers to the Hiker Quiz, p. 19-21 1. Skagit River 23. Wonderland Trail 2. (b) Paradise Glacier to the east, 24. (e) Skyline Trail, Olympics Nisqually Glacier to the West 25. (d) A high trail between The Cat- 3. camp robber (there are two species walk and Dodwell-Rixon Pass generally referred to as “camp rob- 26. (i) A trail near North Bend bers”: gray jays (Perisoreus canadensis) 27. (g) Poets Ridge found at lower elevations and Clark’s nutcrackers (Nucifraga columbiana) 28. (j) Mount Rainier found at higher elevations. 29. (h) Mount Baker 4. western hemlock 30. (b) On the southwest shoulder of 5. avalanche lily, glacier lily and tiger Mount Baker near Park Butte lily 31. (f) Mount St. Helens 6. Mount Olympus 32. (a) Mount Adams 7. Stevens Pass 33. (c) Lake Washington 8. (c) steelhead 34. (h) Cup and Saucer 9.