The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-08-07

of leggings with the English army in
India, and with some of the mountain
GERS of Europe. My travelling bag gave
up sweater, and my finished appear
anec led bystander to compliment me
upon my close resemblance to a Cor
sican brigand Of the most malevoent
type But an attractive personal APP
pearanee is very far from sine qua
non on that kind Of a trip, and five min
utes' walk from the hotel put us where
there We're none to see or to critcise
anywhere. A possible exception to that
existed in the shape of some possible
mountain sheep or goat which the
guide told me were to be seen in the vi
cinity occasionally.
The anomaly of the hotel surround
ings was lost as we entered the woods.
At the buildings we left combination
of warm sunshine green grass, wild
flowers, fountains and occasional snow
heaps. Under the tall fir trees all was
| winter. The snow law in depths vary
ing from two to any number of feet.
The spring warmth had reached it suf-
ficently for melting in exposed spots,
and for turning all the surface into
| moist mass of coarse granulation, into
1 -
depth which made heavy walking. Oc-
casionally, by reason of melting under
meath, caused by running water, one
! sank mdleg, and even Waistdeep with
a plunge which was by no means pleas
ant. The way followed up the valley
along the course of rushing torrents
whose source was the glacier above
They roared and fumed down their
| steep deep.
| Flashing in foam and spray,
| to find their way eventually into the
| Columbia river, and SO on into the Pa
cific ocean.
| About one and three quarters miles
from the hotel, large rock bears
painted inscription: sixty feet to
snout." BY this euphonious title is
| meant the terminal point of the glacier.
| Our path to it had taken us through
| forest of tall frs, straight as Indian ar
| rows. We crossed the plunging streams
| on rude bridges, and emerged at last
| upon the snow and rock-covered NOR
aine at the foot of the ''snout which
appears to be a variable point But al
ways behind it, pushing its mighty
mass downward to be melted, and
transformed from picturesque Ice struc-
| ture into even more picturesque tumb-
ling and whirlng mountain streams,
comes the snow moving bulk of the
glacier.
Although l strongly suspect that
there was a modcum of 'poppycock'
about it, at the foot of the snow-cover-
ed slope the guide unlimbered the coil
of rope which he carried, and we were
duly roped up. Somehow it gave me the
feeling of being led along like little
dog on the end of a string. The rope
may have been desirable, and it may
have been necessary. The guide said
that there were covered creva sses which |
might be dangerous. We did pass a
number of spots over which he felt his |
way with caution and we crossed two
or three narrow but deep assures which
We're anything but inviting hiding |
places
The time at my disposal did not per- |
init an ascent to the crest of the range, |
but did attain a point which the guide |
said was three thousand feet above the |
hotel. The hotel itself is given as App |
feet above the sea level. The view from |
our hating spot was superbly grand.
In all directions were snow-covered |
peaks, domes and ranges. Facing north
ward, in front of us stretched the Her
NIT Range on the right, the towering
peak of Sir Donald and the only less
lofty Eagle Peak to the left rose the
pyramid of Cheops, glistening white as
the monday sun. 1t was a scene of mar
velous grandeur There was no long
range view All lowered near at hand
and hid that which lay beyond. Around
us as we stood were the huge masses of
upheaved ice forms in rough and fam
tastic blocks, some white with snow,
some of clear, pale emerald ice.
Wherever the eye rested, near or far,
there was beauty, marvel and grand
eur 1t was one of those scenes from
which one turns because he must but
turns with unspeakable reluctance.
The ascent had been a slow process
of going up a steep fight of stairs, and
making the stairs as one must up
ward, by stamping the toe of ones
boot into the yielding snow. The descent
was more rapid; sometimes we walked
in long strides; sometimes we leaped,
on sleeper slopes, with still longer
The covering of snow was too |
soft and deep for the glissade, but we
had occasional opportunity to do to-
boggan in proper toboggan attitude
but minus the toboggan. We took one
drop of fifty feet over bank which
needed but a smart kick at it's base to
make it perpendicular. That slide con-
sisted of a few minutes of carful prep
aration on the brink, a yell of excite
ment, whzz and the extrication from
snow bank at the bottom. Ascent, des-
cent and the halt at the top consumed
only four hours.
The appetite which I acquired was
soon satisfied. The face burned by the
sun glare will quickly heal The mem
DRY Of it all will stay, and some day I
want to go back there and climb Sir
Donald. of the Boston