The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1905-07-26
Search For New Trail

| sides ana linEllnE It's WAY down
ward TO incaiculable depths. Your
| correspondent nhuddercd and, with
| the courage Of desperation. while
/ the long line waited behind, stuck
| her alpine stick into the ice and
ynultod A hundred years hence. or
| perhaps a hundred hundred years
| that steel hatpln will be released
from the clutch OF the ice and cast
up on the terminal moraine In the
valley below
Here and there. where our guide.
pOklnR his stick into the smooth
snow before placing his foot. would
| leap back suddenly and with his
stick uncover blind" erevaHne
down which the whole party could
have been swallowed. II IL eharae-
teristie OF any variety OF mountain
climbing that those who nerneyere
presently find themselves losing
thier fear and taking all things for
granted more particularly those
things which struck them dumb
with terror at first THIS was Inn
pressed upon your correspondent
/ yivldly by an incident on the return
trip Al the beginning Of the up
| tramp I had trembled 90 step across
an inch crack In the ice. and was
| fearful Of each step aH ! made II.
| Starting on the homeward trip !
found myself sticking in a hair pin
/ with one hand and swinging ms
staff with the other as ! leaped n
/ three foot creyahse II was only
when the hair pin fell In the snow
/ and / stopped 20 pick Il up that |
realized the action. the appalling
| depths Of the chaHms with It's CLASSY
blue wailH. catching and holding
my eye.
between the Paradise and the
Cowlltz glaciers there ia long.
steep anowfield. down which we all
slid with eahlllerating speed. guild
ing ourselves with our feet and our
Ialpine stocks A shout Of mirth
land a cheer accompanied the slide
Of each member aud particularly
that Of your correspondent. who
struck a new route and who. In
avoiding a rock. turned aidewiae
and concluded the slide with a
double someraaiilt. just how com
teal this tobaEEanninE must have
been. your correspondent realized
when she looked back ward from the
glacial field below and Eav the pie
turesaue little figure ~ Miss Hen
rietta Failing. Portland society Eifl
and only other woman In the party
coming down the slope nloomefa
and short skirts flutterinE. hair fly
ing and desperately elutehinE her
Anime stock. Miss Failing came
down the slope with the speed Of a
locomotive. sliding and humping
and finally stopping herself by dig
cling her boots into the Enow out on
the anovfieid.
a. only one place did We use the
lifeline. his Was AZ a long aidc-hill
slope Of glacial ice. over which trio
killed. a side stream Of water The
slope was eriHa.crOHHed with Grew
asses. and to slide meant a death
coast down the steep slope into a
yAnwinK chAam. from which there
could - no reAcue-the giving 40 Of
ones strong healthy young body %
b. ground for ages bet the
great mountains ~ Ice and 10 be- IN
centuries TO come cast out. a pctri-
fed fossil or a bare. bleached Ekel
etou. upon the moraine below a
thing for conjecture and wonder "a
the later generations Of men. cen
turtles ahead In futurity
Only one accident. despite the
great opportunities for disaster. be-
fell the N ventureHome human be
lnFs vho az shutdown. trudKed back
across the last glacier. heads down
before the wind. teeth set. and feet
lne-eold and saturated. over the
trail. Or. w r Patton. while climb
ing 20 a glacial peak 10 pose for a
stercopticon view being taken BY
the Kaiser PhotographinE company
Ieaped upon an uverhanFinE bank
of snow and fell into a three-foot
erevaaae Being an athlete and pos
snHsed 81 extraordinary agility and
strength. Dr. Patton caught himself
al a depth OF i've feet and, hracing
his knees against either wall climb
ed out after rs desperate minutes.
Not until his shoulders appeared
above the crevasge was the accident
known 20 the rest of the party.
An original "Mazama." calmly
browsing off a pile OF bare slate
rock on one Of the cliff. was seen
shouted against the sunse; sky
on our return. and a tuft OF snow
white wool was found on shrub
nearby. We marched into camp
lnst At supper time and we're re-
eolved with cheers as We came down
the trail. for the Cowlitz glacier trip
Ia the hardest preliminary endur-
ance teat and We came In On good
time. all IN neat file and every
climber Of the party still fresh and
walking briskly. -Four hard pre-
llmlBary tramps have put your cor
respondent In excellent climbing
trim and she is nov voted one Of
the most promising candidates for
the final climb
NAN BYXBEE.