Tucker Sno-Cat

The snow survey scored a major publicity triumph in 1942 with the appearance of Engineers Survey Snow in the April 1942 issue of Life magazine.  Readers saw photographs of Arch Work and Jack Frost surveying near Oregon's Crater Lake. National Geographic featured snow surveys in their November 1949 issue.  Arch Work assisted one of the magazine's writers, Leo Borah, in 1946 when he transported Borah to Crater Lake in a Sno-Cat. Work suggested to Borah that a trip from the California-Oregon border along the crest of the Cascade range to the Columbia River would provide National Geographic with a splendid article.  The Tucker Sno-Cat Company furnished the transportation and a mechanic-driver (the son of the owner) for the 23-day trip.
Your contact is Douglas Helms, NRCS National Historian, at 202-720-3766.