New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-11-18
THE HAYDEN EXPEDITION.
IN THE MIDDLE PARK.

-PRoGREss TOWARD THE MIDDLE PARk-soh-
PTsIsING AN INDIAN cAMP-FAREwELL TO NE
EXPEDITION
IRON AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENTS OF TIE 1RiboH
Hor SPRINGS, Middle Park. Col. Ter, sept a.,
When last wrote 10 The TRIBUNE an account OF the
dongs ofthe survey we had just returned from 'ne
difficult and tosome achievement of the ascent Oh
Holy Cross Mountain. As compared with that our
Iabors since have been light nor will they require 10
be described at any great length, since after ALL the
climbing of one mountain is much like that VI
another aud it is not easy to set forth in words the
difference between two mountain views so as "
make it either impressive or interesting.
With the Holy Cross ourdealings with the Natlonai
Range were for the present finished We had loi-
lowed it through its whole length from Mount mar
ward northward had crossed it twice, and had peen
on the top of half dozen of its principal peaks i's
southern end was to be visited by Mr.. Gardner iae
in the season. Now, our steps were turned pacA
toward the Great Plains, and on the way Doli 'no
more eastern ranges, parallel with the National
were to be crossed and examined.
To these two ranges las Mr. Gardner explains III
a communication to the October number OF o""-
mans Journal the Survey gives the names OF fron'
Range and Park Range. the former as well charac-
terizing the grand wall Of rocky SUBMITS which
fronts the corner from the plains, between Pikes
and Longs Peaks the latter as fitting well the
equally grand wall which bounds on the west tue
series of parks north middle, and south of the fik
Range. Mt Lincoln is the eliminating point rislhs
highest in q group of SUBMITS little less lofty but
further north upon the same line is another long
group of even moro rocky and serrated peaks
ranging not far from 1900 feet in hight and stano
ing oct majestically against the northern SKY as
seen from Lincoln They line the upper course OIL 'o
Blue River, which derives from them It's prihclp'i
sources and are most naturally called the Blue
River group. Their northerumost summit Is .ne
highest, and this was our next aim.
STRIKING FOR THE BLUE RIVER MOUNTAINS
The new mountain was only twenty miles away
from the old, in an air line but difficulty OF access
as we had already found is not always measured Ny
distance. To get at it was problem. Ihere was
no map to be guided by, nor any known experiences
of former explorers and the peak was not visible
from the valley where we were nor from any OF the
hills bordering itlyiDg ensconced, as 1t DID, among
nanking nights. But Mr.. Gardner had studied It's
approaches from the top of Holy Cross, ana we nan
Mr.. Holiness panoramic sketch from that point, as
detailed and trustworthy as a photograph; anu
though the drainage of the mountain was obscure
and the apparent direct approaches made lmprac-
ticable by burned forests and fallen timber, we
ridges and reach the base of the peak. Our conf
dence was not deceived for at the end of long and
toiIsome days march, we found ourselves at the
edge of steep decvity where, good thousand feet
below lay at our feet the valley in which our climb
ing camp was 10 be NADIA long stralght trough
with meadows, a winding stream, and tranquil
lake. Its sides had the aspect OF moralnes put ley
were in fact slopes and pitches Of sandstone left BY
- ,to.., had
itself channel toward the opener country below.
How we ever got down that slope with our animals
is mystery which my memory seems unequal to
clearing up; but we did reach the bottom alive and
unharmed and made there one of the most beautiful
of the Summer. The evening scene,
with the young moon hanging just in the mouth OF
our valley and lighting up dimly the immense gray
wall of the mountain opposite, was almost magical
DISTINCT SIGNS OF GLACIAL ACTION.
The climb next day a severe one, about 4,jO0
feet of steady ascent all of it too steep and rugged
for us to get any help from our animals. The lower
half of the mountain, up to UNDERLINE showed the
same clear signs of glacial action which we nave
found so generally about these ranges, and 1t fur
nished in respect the most striking eXhlbitloh
that we had seen. The bard andpersistent material,
eness had retained the scratchlngs, and scorlngs'
and groovings of the ice almost precisely as they
were left when the glacier first shrank into snow
bank The sheep-backp formation, too, was trace
able enough, though far from being on so grand
scale as at the Holy Cross. Fallen timber, as usual
greatly INSTRUCTED our progress bellows we were re-
lieved enough when we had nothing but good hon
est scrambling to do, where every step planted us
so much nearer TO the summit. The upper half was
all bare rock in cliff and debris-slope nowhere any
of those beautiful banks of green, spangled with
flowers, which have excited our admiration and
called forth exclamations of delight on many OF the
mountains of geutler slope. No garden parterre
could be more brilliant with rainbow colors than
these spots of alpine vegetation, planted and tended
by Nature herself for the delight of bird and insect
far above the line where the growth Of trees ceases
Clouds of Tasshoppers were started up here and
there by our footsteps, and the vast snow-banks
near thetop were thickly sprinkled with their car
cases. We have met with the same thing else
where. The devastating grassbopper flies over the
highest peaks but also gbts III great numbers upon
them, while such as touch The snow are chilled to
DEATH These the bear which is no less fond of such
Iocusts than of wild honey, gathers no as choice
delieacy. We saw plentiful signs of such cleaners
here, and at another peak. the White House, all the
time we were Oh the summit bear was busily at
work in this way on the next snow-feld mile or
50 distant
THE OUTLOOK FROM MOUNT POWELL.
On arriving at the top, wea found record when
showed that there had been Visitors there before u.s.
Prof. Powell, the noted explorer of the Colorado
canon, had climbed the peak from the other side
toward Middle Park, in September, 1863 This is, in
fact, the mountain which he and. bis party called by
his own name, Mount Powell in his first year OF
Western exploration, when he spent the Summer in
the Park and wintered further to the northwest on
the White River. Nor is there any reason for
rejecting their nomenclature; Powell has been one
of the most enthusiastic and venturcsome pioneers
of Western discovery, and well deserves that his
name be attached TO of the lofty SUBMITS over
looking of the great river for our knowledge