The book says it was 10 men plus a cook.  And the book says there was only 3 miles of trail to build, but by my calculation it is about 5 miles from Frazier Turnaround to the Roaring River.

Rob Williams said
The book says it was 10 men plus a cook.  And the book says there was only 3 miles of trail to build, but by my calculation it is about 5 miles from Frazier Turnaround to the Roaring River.

I wonder, why the difference?  Perhaps they were connecting to an existing trail, or maybe someone decided that they only had resources to build that much trail that year?

Maybe the trail ends at 3 miles.

kirk said

I wonder, why the difference?  Perhaps they were connecting to an existing trail, or maybe someone decided that they only had resources to build that much trail that year?
Maybe the trail ends at 3 miles.

 Hopefully we will find out the answer soon.