Dinner is ready. “The noonday meal is carried with us on our trip for the day, except Sunday. On that day, we eat in camp. Note the little table made of split cedar shakes. It is right on the bed of a little mountain creek, about 15 feet in front of the tent where the folks are sitting. Edward, David, and Roland Hartley, 1908” (References made to “visitors’ camp”.) —Roland Hartley

“Moving camp on the Cascade Mountain Pack Trail, passing Gus Barran’s ranch. David had over 40 pounds in his pack, Edward over 50 pounds, and I over 70 pounds. I can testify that such a load will make the perspiration run down one’s back. Note the smoke in the background from nearby forest fires.” (August 11, 1908—Roland Hartley)

Visitors in camp. “On Sunday, August 16, 1908, we were close to a county road and wrote Nina that, if they would come up on the Sunday train, we would have a team meet them and bring them out to our tent and we would cook them a Sunday dinner. You can see the satisfied look on all but the cook, which look answers for itself.” — Roland Hartley

Hartley family sitting on front steps of family home. (Left to right) son Edward; Mr. Hartley holding daughter Mary; Mrs. Hartley; son David; and Mrs. Hartley’s mother, Mrs. David Clough

A family portrait of Hartley family at the Governor’s Mansion in Olympia in the late 1920s.

Back row: Little Jean Hartley in the arms of her father, Edward Hartley; Edward Hartley’s wife, Mary Bell; Roland Hartley’s wife, Nina; Roland Hartley; Roland Hartley’s daughter, Mary; David Hartley’s wife, Gretchen; and David Hartley. Front row: Edward’s daughter, Judy; Edward’s daughter, Marcia; David’s daughter, Gretchen; David’s son, David, Jr.; and David’s daughter, Sue.

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