Preparing for Pack Trip (Early)

Here's an early photo of packers getting ready to make the trip into the lower Rogue River.  From the viewers left, the people are Sam Jones, Hathaway Jones, Cecil Criteser, Walt "Baldy" Criteser, and Mary "Mae" Criteser.  Notice the railroad bridge is wooden and has yet to be replaced with steel.  Problems with the hot embers of the locomotives caused wooden bridges to be replaced with steel.  (Photo and  info courtesy of Helen Bates Roberts)