Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1904-08-11
TRIP TO SHASTA'S SNOW CLAD PEAK
Me Summit of Perpetual Snow

This woula have eifectually prevented
any successful signalling to or from
Mt. Hood, had there been any Ma
zamas there to signal.
On the return. the main party was
met at the snow bridge. They had
trailed Bunnell and his following over
all the perilous route. The rope had
been brought into use at all the dan
grous points, and the progress of the
party had been slow. A number of
the men had dropped out of line,
weakened by lack of sufficient food
in the morning. All the ladies were
still with the party, the one who had
Jagged in tho morning being now
scarcely able to stand alone. She was
full of determination, however, and
all the ladies were keenly disappoint-
ed when they found they must turn
back without reaching the summit.
Messrs. Sholes, Glisan and Alvord.
of the Mdzamas, pushed onward to the
summit They did not remain until
after nightfall to burn red fire in the
attempt to signal Mt. Hood, as had
been previously advertised. The pros
poets of night spent ON the summit
of Shasta are not too alluring and in
the present instance the huge thunder.
clouds gathering about the top of the
mountain made timber line seem OK.
ceedingly like homo as the evening
shades drew on. With all the smoke,
haze and clouds in the atmosphere, ii
would have been uttrely useless to
make any attempt at signalling.
The descent was made in short order
over the route taken by Paese aud
Farnsworth. Tho mountaineers mere.
ly sat down on the snow and in few
minutes found themselves on the lower
attitudes without any effort ON their
part. The friction was considerable
hut no one was very badly socrched.
At Timberline Camp, all was desert
ed, except that Col, Hawkins was
there busliy packing the bedding for
transport to Wagon Camp Cook and
provisions had descended many hours
before. There were n few cans of va
rious kinds of food still under the tree
and there was plenty of cold water in
the spring. Not an atom Of tea or
coffee had been left at timber line and
the party was expected to travel the
other four miles to Wagon Camp before
getting any supper. One or two Of
those who were yet able to navigate
discovered skillet and the identical
Dutch oven" in which the tea had
been boiled the night before. The
colonel had built fire and hot water
was soon ready to serve to the ex-
hausted ones. One of the ladies was
completely "done for" and would not
bulge a single inch beyond the upper
camp The other two ladies were
mounted on one horse and taken to
the lower camp. Some four or FIVE
persons remained all night at tue up
per camp,
Stumbling along in twos and threes,
the weary walkers fell spasmodically
down the trail. Pitchy darkness set
In long before Wagon Camp was
reached and but for the "horsc sense"
of the animal that carried the ladies
it IL probable that several would have
lost their way.
At Wagon Camp, supper was wait
ing three kinds of pie, two kinds of
cake and stewod mushrooms. II all
looked alike in the darkness though
the taste could still detect some vari-
ETY.. Aud there was coffee, the first
some Of the party had tasted since
they left Sissons.
In tile morning the members looked
mp to the long cold snow SUBMITS OF
Shasta and several remarked that 1t
looked three times as high as 1t did
the previous morning. Ana it was
noticeable that mono spoke Of the
mountain except In t~ms Of the high.
est respect.
There is a photograph in existence
whichThows lady seated on horse
which is standing on the extreme sum
nit of the mountain. This picture
gives the idea that horses are ridden
to the TOP Of Mt Shasta. We were
told by reliable people at Sissons that
tire horse was pulled up with block
and tackle aud that It took four days
Of hard work to get him up. The pic.
ture, however is a drawing card and
II used extensively for advertising
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