The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-08-28

! sent whizzing down the mountain, and
landed down in the valley and broke
into thousand pieces.
again seated myself in the sacks.
and thought to myself that l would
stay with the sleigh" this time or die.
We started slowly down, and were
going quite we'll, until we struck
bump in the snow and where l slid OFF
and filled my gloves and shoes with
the frozen snow. In short time !
was nearly frozen. We tried walking
awhile, and then the guide showed his
skillin coasting by seating himself on
the sacks and taking the ropes in his
hands coasted as we used to down Union
street hill. 1t seemed such sport i
adopted the same mode of reaching
a fiat below. So coasted down the
short hill, and it was fine sport. We
had come down a very. steep pitch of
snow and it was somewhat startling to
look back and see the track over which
we had come.
We reached pile of rocks and
waited for the others. We soon saw
them coasting down. The shadows
were deepening and snow freezing SO
that the longer we stayed the colder
we became. l saw the professor and
the girls. one on each arm, coming
gaily down and as their laughter rang
on the clear air, L thought they were
enjoying the situation, when their feet
flew up and they flew down. simultan-
eously, then | laughed. They jumped |
up as gracefully as possible and started |
on again, and sat down to coast as
other people Go. The guide met them
and lent his assistance by going in /
front and steering for them. We
coasted all together about five miles.
This we enjoyed, although we were
wet and cold. The guide made US run
over the rocks and sand until we were
warm.
We saw our horses tied to the trees
AWAY to the right, for we were a mile
20 the left from where we assembled
'he mountain. A big canyon and a
huge avalanche of snow were at our
eet, so by going across apple of rocks
We could reach better way to get
learer the ponies. We told the men
o go and get the ponies and we would
meet them at the foot.of the hill, and
7e proceeded to cross the canyon
lone. We slid in sand two feet deep,
re climbed huge grey rocks big as
ouse and finally reached the path up
'hich we had gone that morning.
was coming on so rapidly
nat it was but few minutes until we
ould see nothing, but by loud holloos
9 guided ponies and men to where
e were. The hill was so steep and
,ugh that we concluded not to ride
ut to lead our horses. This was too
ard to do, and thought we would let )
lr steeds follow she lead horse. We
rived at clear running brook, and
w, or thought we saw, stones pro-
uding out of the water, and by STEP
ng on them. thought to cross dry
lod. Splash, splash went we, and we
1T across. The sheep man from the
mp concluded we were lost and came
meet US, and fired gun so that the I;
,ise would guide us to the camp. We n
ere so tired that we did not have
rength sufficient with which to get
If supper. 1t was nine o'clock when
, reached camp. The fire was burn
g brightly and after making coffee,
d eating cold lunch, we concluded
make our place of rest for the night
the ground. We remarked that we
d never realized the ground was 80
ry hard. With the canopy of heaven
tn its myriads of twinkling stars
owe US, and the, musical stream of
tier gurgling by at our feet. and the
BON just peeping through the dark
ps of the pines, we went to the land
nod.
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