The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-08-29
Mystical Mountain Meadows Ice Bound
Lakes and Hidden Glaciers.
DEATH-oN-THE-TRAIL EXPLORES
The Country at the Head of Dutch
Creek. Finds a Wonderful Glacier
and Discovers a Waterfall With a
Sheer Drop of 22o Feet.

crlptlOn or trip up Dutch creek, |
in the Flathead Forest Reserve. The |
grandest and most pi -turesque spot |
ever saw. l blazed a trail UP the |
creek about six miles from where |
the Butte OIL company's road crosses
Dutch creek. We then had to climb |
up the mountain side along hogback |
for fnur miles. Then l came to a /
small divide and looked over, expect
ing to see a gulch fillced with timber
and brush, but l halted with surprise
and establishment, for there before
me was the grandest sight ever seen.
Looking down from where l stood, at
an elevation of $500 feet, 200 feet
below me was the vast remains of a i
large glacier. Taking stand point
at elevation 1850 at the north end and
running down to about 1900 dis
lance of one mile and one-half mile
wide. The mountain, from the west
side, seems to have tipped to the east
and turned half over, and stands on
edge and joins the west side. 1t is
so closely joined that only the differ
ent kinds of rock show where the
two mountains came together. On
the top of the mountain there was a
large glacier, half mile wide by one
mile long, which has moved slowly
down for ages, until the rock is as
smooth as glass. 1t is cut in ridges
like the waves on the ocean, some
of them being twenty feet high and
others only one or two feet, and be-
tween each wave flows clear stream
of cold water. I went all over the
place, from end to end, but when |
reached the north end there was an
other grand sight: A large amphi-
theatre, nearly round, $50 feet long
and 1926 wide, standing at an angle
of 40 degrees, at the top terrace
above terrace. 1t looks as though at
one time it had been one vast arena.
One can almost make himself believe
that he can see the tracks OF the
at the bottom under a large Hat rock
well, I won't tell you what | found.
In the center of the arena there
seems to have been great CONFUSION
of nature working away large part,
say IS by 100 feet, and thrown it over,
and there it is at the bottom, all
broken in huge blocks, from one hun
dred pounds to one hundred tons. At
the foot, on the level, is a small pool
of water Is by 100 feet, and as clear
as crystal. | think there is where
they used to wash out the mouths of
the hores after the races. At the bot
tom, where the outside row of seats
are strewn, | think it must be pea
nut shells, or, perhaps, | am mis-
taken.
Still further north, about one
eighth of a mile, there is a small
lake, about 60 feet wide by one
quarter of a mile long, fed by snow
and ice from the mountain side. From
the lake to the top of the mountain
is about 5000 feet and as steep as the
roof of house. I saw lots of goats
and at the south end of the lake were
two large mule deer, one a ten prong
and the other three point, just in
me velvet. | was within 80 feet of
them They did not seem to care
much for me. l then followed the
east side of the fiat, under the noun
tain, and as | was following around
lot of broken shell rock | ran, slap
bang, into band of nine goats, not
over so feet away. They were a
ORC nd 10Th n1H n fofh
Billy had horns to stop a clock.
stood and watched them for FIVE OF
ten minutes before they So me
Even then they did not care much fol
me, but walked slowly away, OLD
Grandfather Billy in the lead. They
went up, up, until they were only g
speck on the rocks, 5000 feet above
Well, I followed down a small stream
until I saw small lake, nearly loo
feet below. 1t was a hard job to gel
down through the brush. AS a mar
once asked me, What is the name
of that darned brush that always
looks you in the face, going up OF
down hill?" Well, in due time
reached the lake. 1t is a quarter o
| a mile wide by one-half mile long
elevation $3.50. 1t is surrounded OF
: three sides by trees and on the nortl
by a wall of rock $500 feet high.
: don't think the hardest wind cal
t strike it's clear water. looked TO
fish but saw none. l will tell, late
on, the reason. I then concluded
: had better return to camp, and, a
;. it was a fearful job to return tn
same wav l came, it was Hobson'
choice, up or down. So l startet
: down the creek. went about one
half a mile and-talk about hair Of
a dogs back; Sam Hill, a dogs bacl
is a prairie in comparison to tina
} place. 1 fell over logs that had falleI
500 years, more or less; went unde
what | could not get over. Well, t
| 30 Low ~ s,YCf fnn