The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-10-26
Mount Hood.

Rambler in Pacific Farmer.
Mount Hood, the best known of oul
snowpeaked mountains, stands l1,225
feet in height, and covers with its base
more than two townships It's five prin-
clpal glaciers are as follows: Clarke's,
named in honor OF Newton Clarke, who
surveyed several townships around Mt.
Hood in 'S3 or '84. This glacier is six
miles long from apex Of dome down to
its lowest borders, with length OF five
miles around its base. Eliot glacier.
running from near top Of peak, 8 miles
long and q mile vide, extending down
into canyon Of middle fork of Hood riy.
err; Goes glacier, miles long and II
mile, wide, on north side; White river
glacier, 2 miles long aud one mile across
lower rim; Sandy river glacier, miles
long with base OF mile or more. Be
sides these there are two other small
ones, the zigzag and William Ladd gla-
clers. There are some fine waterfalls on
or near the mountain on the streams
running from its perpetual SHOWS. On
one branch OF the middle fork OF Hood
river there is said to be waterfall 1000
feet high, another, Feather falls, l50 feet.
and another 100 feet. The fall of Sand
Creek, two miles southeast OF Cloud Cap
Inn, 200 feet. On September End, We
Rambler went alone on Clark's glacier
up to the apex Of the great crevasse,
stretching along under the dome of the
peak, and wide open from the precipice
at the head OF Eliot glacier, and as
there was no way Of getting over in safe
fu1 rit tn 1.n h..
be abandoned, particularly as the safety
ropes had been removed ten days before.
Looking from the snowfelds downward
over the Hood river valley one can get
comprehensive view Of its size and ex-
tent, from Cloud Cap Inn down TO the
Columbia, 2S miles, with an average
width OF to miles, comprising about
100 square miles hemmed in by slopes Of
Mount Hood and the molhtain spurs EN-
anating from it. The long spur or ridge
separating the upper and lower basins
OF the valley in about equal extent, is
well defined. 1t was probably caused |
mainly by q secondary glacial drift of
mighty size and force, the first, long an
terror to that, having covered the lower
basin and valley ages ago when Mount |
Hood was many times its present size.
Who has not at times noticed misty,
vapory cloud lowering over the cap OF
Mount Hood and that, too, in an other
wise cloudless sky. Ye Ramblernoticed
1T when up on the mountain, and al
though there was some slight breeze at
the time, the cloud did not seem to
change its position, except that it SEEM
cd to dissipate into thin air at the point
and in the direction it should float.
What can be the explanation? Is it not
that the yapor being formed by the gas
es and sulphurus fires intermittently ris-
Ing from the cracks and crevices OF the
crater rock, near the summit, coming in
contact with the air, gradually dissipates
Itself after the manner OF steam yapor?
The next day while sitting ~ miles a.
way IN the doorway Of Robert Leasure,
.he Mount Hood tourist guide for Cloud
Capp Inn visitors this season, the phe-
nomena was noticed, the boiling up of
he misty vapor, over the cap on the
light with no apparent increase in the
loud of yapor to the left, but rather a
gradual dissipation and disappearance.
MIR. Leasure said the same appearance
happened more than once while he was
N the summit this season, and at such
lines the smell of sulphur was very {
strong II