Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1904-06-16
LAKE IN THE CRATER
- ouut Rainier Has Magnificent Cav
eTn at Its Peak.
&a*,r,tup Waters without Any Surface
&kutiet Discovered by Tacoma
High school Professor
and Students,
There is lake of water In the crate1

There is lake of water In the crater
et1 Mount Rainier. It's depth and extent
axe nCt known. and may never be. The
1E&eOYery Of the lake was made by Prof
.7pbn B. t'lett WHO has charge Of the
'atanicdl department Of the Tacoma
@ieh school, a4d Two men, Arthur Giles
2ie and franl, Weymouth, who are stu
1tuts Of the high school, says Tacoma
Wash) report The three have made
he ascent from the east side by way of
ha White river glacier. The ascent was
g0ade Saturday, July %, the three spend
ing that night in al ice cave in Crater
.ygall.
a ascent was made over long, vast
snDw1eids, and up great reaches Of gIa-
ci r These glaciers were bisected with
numerous creyasses. which caused the
4chlars to angle back and forth across
be face Of the mountain Much time
was lost in this way, as the creyasses
H0uIG not he seen until the climbers were
almost upon them. Il was after six
O'Clock Saturday evening before they ar
r5yed at the rim Of Crater peak. A fu-
Tl0us wind, accompanied by driving
snow. simultaneously gathered over the
yop Of the mountain, and the three began
70 hunt for shelter
Passing around the rim Of the crater,
steam was observed issuing from hole
about the size of mans body, and,
squeezing through the hole, Prof. Flett
'Dund himself in 2 cCmmO5iOus cavern,
he bottom Of which was composed OF
cocks ana volcanic ash making UP the
olgn Of the crater, while the roof con-
SISTED OF the ice formation covering the
-Uuth of the crater The boys followed
mo the chamber ard the three found
themselves warmly and cOZily housed
COR the night the dry steam coming up
ErUm the bowels of the mOuptain tenn
gering the arctic atmosphere.
The chamber slODed away toward the
nter Of the crater, agreeable to the
,41ntour Of the crater rim. but the slope
uae such that he three could lie down |
u the large stones without danger Of
ling into the darkening cavern be-
ararh Prot Flett's alpenstOck |
ronnad from his hand and rolled 75 feet |
saan the throat of the cavern, ard rope
vas tied around Weymouth, who VEN
AIRED into the darkness beneath and Sc
e1rnd it. As he descended he ichted
r5tohes. carefully exploring his way,
acd finding that the mountain beneath
Is honevComhed with passages, which
-Elf quite jets Of steam. bat probably
Z the remote past vomiting forth red
lot layO The three then began to roll
stones down the incline Some Of these
could clear all the partitions separating
tae passages against which few OF
he stones lodged, and after sending back
ii rumDling roar for minute, as they re-
eounded from side to side Of the caverns,
,ley could be heard splashing into the
AXE beneath
The lake has its source in the melting
c' the tremendous quantities of snow
nat fall within the crater, and which is
perpetually acted upon in certain por-
f.0ns OF the crater by the steam Jets ris-
7o< from the interior. There is no sur
SAGE outlet for this water over the rim
Y the crater, and II there were the low
tarper2tures of the crest Of the old noun
TAIN, would soon freeze and close it ND.
a subterraneOus channel leading down
Trough the heart Of the mountain. may
give temporary yenttO the pent-up wa
'ers. The three witnessed an incOm-
grand sunrise from the summit
me next morning, and on that day, which
'~i.s Sunday, descended into Paradise
ra.i ey by way Of the old route by Glib
aftAr rock
on he way down they met FIVE young
nen from Seattle. who were starting to
make the ascent. in which endeavor they
vere successful, thev reaching the rim {
II me crater the next day (Monday) at T
.01n Prof. Flett and the two boys went Y
round the sida of the mountain. cross r
HE the COwlitz and other glaciers, and r
naiIy arriving al their camp on ridge Y
Verloofing the White river glacier.
Tof flett believes that the route from :
ae east side is one Of the best that f
onid be selected, the slope gradients be- f.
lg easier, there being no dizzy preci- ',
ces, with the trail following shelving (,
rock, as there is on the Gibraltar side W
the mountain, and no dangerous and e.
ltoward clesvers to be traced. e.
People Tat Less bread. "
We'll. hows Dusiness?' asked a re- 81
war of = whCrpSalA flour agent You I'