The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-07-22
WAS MADE IN 1845 BY PARTY OF
PEOPLE FROM THE
DALLES.
Entertaining Account of Accents Of
the Snowy Peaks Of Washington
and Oregon.

tain climbing, few incidents concern
| ing the early ascents of the snowcapped
| sentinels of the Cascade range may
not be amiss at this time. Through the
kindness of Mrs. c. J. Crandall The
Dalles Chronicle obtained the follow
| ing facts:
The first ascent of any snow noun
tains Of the Cascades made by white
men. was by a party from The Dalles
in 1915. H. B. Brewer, one of the mis-
sionaries at the Methodist mission at
The Dalles, accompanied by young
Indian guide, made the ascent of Mt.
Adams. on the 18th day of September
of that year.
Mr.. Brewers journal of the ascent,
is preserved in a little book for Sun
day school story of mission work in
Oregon. and so far as known is the
only record of this early ascent. From
The Dalles Mr.. Brewer was accompa-
MED by two Indian boys. They swan
their horses acros the Columbia river,
they themselves being ferried across
in a canoe by Indians. They followed
the Indian trails along the side of
mountains, across streams and through
almost impossible timber, to the Indian
berry ground near Mt. Adams, when
they made a camp. On the 18th, at
early day, Mr. Brewer, with two Indian
guides, one a young man, the other an
old Klickitat Indian, started for the
mountain, which doomed up just before
them but seemed only a short distance
away. They were until IL o'clock
travelling II miles, and were then only
at the foot of the mountain, from which
to the snow-line was a heavy growth
of timber-fir and spruce. At the
snowlne they left their horses and
climbed afoot, the old Klickitat lead
ing.
When we'll up the mountain the old
man gave out, and giving some direc-
lions, he returned to the horses, leav-
ing Mr.. Brewer and the young Indian
to pick their way along the rocky
| ridges alone. The moss flower was in
/ full bloom and tracks of deer and elk
| frequently crossed their path. When
within a thousand feet of the summit,
Mr.. Brewer could go no farther as ne
was exhausted, and the sun going
down.
The hills of the Willamette $50 miles
|
Vancouver, 100 miles away, were WISH
BILE to the naked eye. The lateness of
the hour and the chilliness of the even
ing warned them that they commence
| the descent without farther delay
They arrived at the snowline where
they left their horses at 10 o'clock p.
M, too late to proceed further, and
there they spent the night with no
protection from the elements and the
hard ground, than the clothing they had
on. The next day they returned to
the berry ground having tasted, with
the exception of few berries, for 80
hours. The old Klickitat Indian told
Mr.. Brewer that ne was the first white
man to climb Mt. Adams.
Mr.. Brewer also speaks of an erup-
ton of Mt. st. Helens during Novem-
Der of 1S43 dark cloud shrouded
the sky and something like sand de-
scended gently on the earth covering
everything in color like ashes, it's odor
like sulphur. To investigate the
source of this TRANCE phenomena they
crossed the Klickitat river AMI ascend
ed one of the Klickitat hills, where
| they could see Mt. ST. Helens throwing
seemed to be smOthered fires
The Oregonian sent the first party
up Mt. Hood in August 1854, when Mr.
Driver founder of that paper, with
Major Halter of the Fourth United
states infantry, then stationed at Fort
Dalles, and Nathan Olney, a promi-
nent citizen of old Wasco made the
assent, probably from this side of the
mountain. Mr. Dryer had ascended
Mt. ST. Helens the summer previous
i and ascertained the fact that Mt. Hood
and Mt. st. Helens were expiring VOL
canoes and still emitted smoke and
ashes from rents near the SUBMITS.
Evidently one of the gentlemen who
climbed Mt. Hood this season. found
one OF these rents, as he was almost
asphyxiated by the poisonous gases
emitted.
The first ascent of Mt jefferson was
made by prospectors in July, 1854.
Gen. Hazard Stevens, son of WASH
lnton territory's first governor. 1. L.
Stevens, who climbs Mt Rainier this
week, claims the honor of making the
first ascent in August, 1870. In COM
pany with P. B. Van Trump he climbe /
the mountain and was compelled to
remain all night on the peak with no
other protection from the intense cold
! OF the night than the jets of steam
emitting from one of the craters
| Inc Indian name of Mt Hood is
| "Wlyeast,' that of Mt. ST. Helens,
| Loo W1t-let-kia,'' of Mt. Adams.
hIlckltat,' of Mt. Rainier .'Taknoma. 4"
LOVE AND THE, RACES.