The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1902-08-02

for several hours every day.
The appearance of these caves cal
be better understood by imagining, /
you can, a railroad tunnel through ,
level country, with its roof not NOR,
than ten feet from the surface of the
| ground, and which after being ne
elected for number of years, had fal
len in here and there, leaving a few
yards at intervals intact, presenting
its existence, save an occasional open
bridge. Where the ice cave is, how
ever, there is no surface indication OF
its existence, save an occasional open
ing such as | have described. and
which resemble the manholes i'm a city
sewer, What causes its peculiarly
cold atmosphere, which is absent from
the lava caves in the same vicinity, is
a phenomenon not easily accounted
for.
The man or woman who undertakes
to climb Mt. Adams must be abundant.
ly supplied with endurance and pluck.
II is not a task for a child or tender.
foot 1t is the most inaccessible of all
our mountain peaks, for there is no
wagon read nearer it's base on the side
from which the ascent is made, than
Trout Lake, at least 10 miles away.
All the provisions of the party of near
one hundred had to be transported
his distance by pack trains, and prac-
tiCally all the people. men and women.
made 1t on foot
One Of the interesting features OF
this part of the trip is the fact that
he innumerable sheep trails that lead
In every conceivable direction. discon.
cert the traveller and insure his becom.
ing lost with a certainty that is not to
be discounted At this time of the
year there are many thousands of
sheep being herded here, and a well
beaten trail signifies nothing to the
stranger except uncertainty. and little
more to the professional guides Even
the man who was hired to take the
pack trains to the snow lines one day
ahead of the party, became lost and.
as a consequence the ascent was final.
ly delayed from Saturday until Mon.
day and the established program per.
manently disarranged
The entire party returned in sepa-
rate squads, In thoroughly go,as,you-
please mannerand each one became
hopelessly lost for several hours. Hon.
W. Carey Johnson and wife did not
get to Trout Lake until o'clock in
the morning Not to be ontdone, how.
ever they stoutly maintained that, be.
ing their only opportunity to see tho
country, they had spent the greater
part Of the night on the outer edge of
the Yakima Indian Reservation as a
means of gathering useful information
AS soon as our party OF nine had
descended the higher timber lands far
enough to lose sight Of Mt, Hood, our
landmark and towards which we were
travelling we unconsciously bore of
toward the Klickitat valley, and but
for our being oyertaken by a guide
who himself was lost, but not so badly
as we, our party would surely have
struck the Columbia river in the yicin-
ity of The Dalles. The guide finally
got so far ahead OF us that we found
the trail before he did, and the time
we lost in rescuing him delayed our
arrival at Trout Lake fully one hour
Mt Adams is not nearly so beautiful
mountain as Hood, nor is It's ascent
nearly so interesting nor nearly 50
dangerous, In fact the climbing OF
Mt. Adams is merely a test OF physi-
cal endurance nothing more. And
yet, il any difference at all the view
from Adams is the more beautiful for
the reason that you can see quite as
much OF Western Washington and
Oregon ard more OF the country east
OF the mountains in both states,
From Adams the entire Yakima coun-
try was plainly visible as we'll as all Of
WasCO, Sherman and Crook counties
Towards the west, unfortunately, moth
ing could be seen but a sea OF half sill
very half golden clouds stretching
below US as far as the eye could reach.
On Monday morning, the 2lst inst,
80 Of ms began the ascent each armed
with an alpenstock and a lunch con
sisting Of two sandwiches, the Offering
Of one Of which 10 a stranger would
have been sufficient cause on his part
for engaging you In mortal combat, but
as We made them ourselves We bore
the inhiction uncomplainingly Wa
arose al 2:3O. started at 4 and arrived
at the summit all the way from 80 in
the afternoon 10 g. The writer accom-
panied by his wife a sheep herder OF
the vicinity named Mulligan and his
dog Bob" and Mr.. c. r. Rusk from
Goldendale, as a volunteer but most
efficient guide. were the last 10 reach
the summit-let us say, because IL
seemed necessary that some one
should see that no stragglers were left
behind Bob was said 10 be the only
dog ever reaching the highest summit,
in consideration Of which / wrote his
name IN the Mazama record book
Mt Adams is nearly l2.50O feet
above sea level and the ascent from
the snow line involves a climb Of