The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-07-18
BEAUTIES OF
LAKE MCDONALD
Handsome Publication by Passenger
Department of Great Northern.
ON "cRowN OF CONTINENT"
Attitudes to Suit the Most Exacting,
Ranging From 5000 to 1900 Feet.
Sperry Glacier a Remarkably In
structive Object Lesson.

One of the latest additions to the
literature of the Great Northern rail
way deals exclusively with Lake Nc
Donald the crown of the continet,"
one of Montanas greatest attractions
to the tourist, and look through the
pages of the booklet is calculated to
cause the resident or the visitor to
pack his traps and seek out the beau
tiful spots that are so attractively
shown in the illustrations that en-
bellish the publication. The general
view of the lake from the mountain
side is as charming as nature in her
most generous mood could make it.
Evening on the Lake is a gem of
rare beauty, while the view of the
north end of the lake stands a close
Second in attraetiveness, s4r- J..
This section of the Rocky noun
tains is becoming a much fTequented
summer resort, not only for lovers Of
delightful scenery and students of
natural science, but also for those
who need rest from the distracting
and killing influence of the "madding
crowd"
The altitude of the lakes being but
little over 5000 feet above the sea
level, the atmosphere is sufficiently
dense to insure easy respiration and
an abundance OF oxygen, even to
those whose lung capacity is some
what diminished. Notwithstanding
the moderate altitude, the air is as
pure and bracing as can be found in
the rarer atmospheres of much higher
attitudes further south. Oppressive
atmospheric conditions are practic-
ally unknown about the shores of
Lake Mcdonald. The great range of
altitude in the immediate vicinity,
and the varied exposures and influ-
ences resulting from the close prox-
unity of high peaks, large snow
fields, deep valleys and sun warmed
slopes, insure such a constant circu-
lation of the atmosphere that lifeless
or unpleasant lung food is unknown
Those who for any reasons prefer
higher attitudes can find close at
hand whatever they seek, even to a
height of 10000 feet above the sea-
In many of it's interesting features
one of the most interesting and in
structive sheets of snow and ice yet
discovered in this or any other coun
try is Sperry glacier. 1t has a sinu
Gus or serrated frontage Of more thar
two miles and a length of about
five miles. Its highest and largest
head is on top of Glacier peak, one
of the spinous processes of the cont
mental backbone. The glacier gradu
ally spreads out as it descend.
toward the northwest, and terminate,
near the lower border of an undulat
ing amphitheater or mountain gal
lery about two or three miles il
area About a mile from the from
of the glacier the lower border o
this amphitheater terminates in al
abrupt and startling precipice, hay
ing an average height of more thai
5000 feet.
The processes called planning. pc
ishing, scratching growing, trans
porting, dumping, etc, have been gC
ing on here for centuries. Scattere
over the glacial field one may Sc
groups of roche moutonnes so recen
" finished and so finely formed tina
they almost seem to be alive an
about to spring to their feet and ru
with the mountain goats, which on
may actually see scampering ava,
Here are numerous moraines, bot
lateral and terminal, of all shade