The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-05-16
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InS ab0 WnuunR ADOuttu UiSOtuSI aIOuuO ne. In that raFifed atmosphere breath ing was difficult. After every seventy five or one hundred steps of progress would fall exhausted and out of breath, prone in the narrow wet trail, lying there for several minutes before gaining strength for another effort. About ten o'clock dense cloud wrapped me in its cold, clammy embrace, rendering it so dark that lost the poor indistinct trail and stumbled helplessly around ovel chaotic heaps of rock, hopeless of reach. ing shelter.
 1 was between two immense beds oi snow which had lain there perhaps for ages. The temperature must have been about zero. Yet was worn out and felt that must sleep. Even had been phy- sicaliy able to walk about for warmth there was no ground for walking-noth- ing but powders, more or less crushed and broken, thrown against each other by power now unknown.
 The situation was desperate. l lay down behind one powder after another in the vain attempt 10 hide from tha, searching wind, which came from every where at once. slept, but not long. After a few seconds doze would be reused by the intense cold, which brought not a welcome numbness, but keen sabre thrusts of pain. Through that dreadful night slept not more than half an hour. The cold exposure and rare6ed air caused sickness at the stomach and retchings that were intellectual from sheer weakness. It was a fearful experience. Sometimes could hear the footfall of some prowling animal near by. Now there was the whine of young puppy issuing from a cavity immediately under where lay. crawled barely six feet further along the side of the powder and lay down again, too weary to move further; only dozing off to sleep again with pistol in hand, ready to sell my life dearly if need be. The night wore away.
 At o'clock, after six hours of as com plete misery as ever comes to punish mans imprudence and teach him wisdom, with the beginnins of light was able to find the trail and slowly work my way up the remaining half mile to the sum- init. Knocking at the door of the signal station and watching the sun rising in wonderful grandeur, l found myself obliged simultaneously to indulge in a hearty vomiting. Of course the sublim- ity of the sunrise was lessened for me, and l was much mortified at presenting myself at strangers door in such plight. The signal officer, however, treasured me by treating the proce .ding quite as a matter of course and telling me that 'they all do it," the high altitud. (I4 900 feet) having that effect on large proportion ol the visitors. lay down, and in two hours was myself again, ready for any fresh adventure that might present itself Thus it is in that wonderful climate of Colorado. Exposure that would kill man in Kentucky, there only adds zest to living. Men never die there, at le st not often mot more than once In two hours was jumping from powder to powder gathering the hardy little flowers that take root there wherever handful of soil happens to accumulate.
 The eye, assisted by glass, has a mighty range of vision. Denver, eighty miles away, is plainly visible. Six states and territories are in sight, the range of vision extending for 300 miles. But love would be angry were 1 to portray here the glories of lofty Olympus, so l will close. leaving the imagination of the reader to finish the picture.