Kit Burkhart, an avid long-distance hiker, will be the guest speaker at the Feb. 19 meeting of the Edelweiss Ski Club. The meeting will be held at Round Table Pizza, 2040 N.W. Stewart Parkway, in Roseburg. Socializing will begin at 6 p.m. and the meeting at 6:30. Burkhart, who splits her time between residences in the Tacoma, Wash., area and Myrtle Creek, will talk about the ski trip John Meissner made in 1948 from Mount Hood to Crater Lake and her own solo trek on the Skyline Trail (now Pacific Crest Trail) from Mexico to Canada. Burkhart researched and wrote …




