The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-07-20

'S+Ai'S'AAIOC 6SdCll, ny tudt bruce OI good fellows, George H. Westcott, whose artistic attainments in this line have been the delight of countless ex- cursionists to Blaine and Seniahmoo for the past dozen years This is one feature the Mazamas will not soon for get
 The start for the mountain will be made early on the morning of July 27 by train for Glacier over the Belling- ham Bay and British Columbia rail- road. The end of the railway line is at this place, which is just within the Washington forest reserve. Here the Mazamas enter one of the unique, in- teresting, and beautiful, regions of the Pacific Northwest, where scenic won ders succeed each other almost con stantly.
 From Glacier to Timberline, the per- manent camp, is a distance of twelve miles, through primeval forest, along canyons and past waterfalls. All the way roar the noisy waters Of Glacier Creek, which discharge the waste and silt from the great North Glacier down an almost appalling incline and into the north fork of the Nooksack river. The way Is up, constantly up, for twelve miles, through jungles and over chasms, until the snow line is reached. The trail has one charm, however, it has never been travelled, as it was cut by the Belhngham Chamber of Com merce for this particular occasion.
 Timberline will be above the source ot Glacier Creek above the moraine of the glacier on this side of the moun- tain. Grassy parks, with groves of mountain larch, spruce and juniper growing in grotesque shapes, in many instances of great natural beauty, adorn these slopes. Nowhere in the Wide world do the summer winds sing more entrancing harmonies or the flowers grow in more brilliant profu- sion.
 Viewed anywhere from the west, the northwest and the southwest, Mount Baker is a dome of more or less rug ged outlines. Seen from the Strait of Fuca, it seems to stand a mighty guardian at the junction of that wa- terway with Puget Sound, though in reality many miles inland, As mat ter of fact, the peak is an irregularly shaped, double volcanic cone, with one live crater and several extinct ones. Its lava flows have been enormous, the glacial and stream cuttings in many places showing tremendous depths. On the mountain itself, par tcularly the north side, great deposits of sulphur in masses of native purity arie found. It is a region at once of l alluring scenic attractions and of great geological interest. It is inhabited by mountain goat, the big silver tip bear, and thousands of ptarmigan, the beau tiful white grouse of the Areties.
 On account of the wonderful scenery and the many places to be visited in the vicinity of Mount Baker and, Mount Shuksan, it has been decided to make this a three- weeks trip. Per sons are not, howerer, obliged to stay the entire time If business or other ne- cessities call them from camp
 A story of Mount Baker would be in- complete without this bit of graphic history and description, written by Frank Carleton Teck of Bellingham:
 Mount Baer (the true, poetic Indian name of which is Kulshan, which means. according to some of the old Indians of the Lunmi tribe, Great White GuardlanD is almost a perfect dome rising from the midst of the widest and most picturesque noun tain fastnesses imaginable. Near to the southward are the many~headed Sisters, more than score of bare and very rugged peaks of fawn and red- dish colored rocks, each of the peaks being approximately seventy-eight hundred feet high, Northward is the jagged head of Shuksan, another Indi- an name, signifying "The Mountain of Storms" so named because of the con tinual terrific noises of the winds and frequent avalanches around it's serra- ted and precipitous sides. Shuksan is more than seventy-five hundred feet Thigh, and its summit has perhaps nev- CT been touched by the foot of man. This is in the heart of the famous Mount Baker gold fields, and trails lead to the bases of many minor peaks in the vicinity. The great canon of Glacier Creek is one of the wonders of this wonderful region north and north west of the great dome, and Professor E s. 1ngraham, who aseended Kul- shan by way of Glacier Creek in 1891, declared in his report of the expedi- tion: It Is one of the most striking in the magnifcence of it's cliffs and scenery in the United States
 "Kushan, the sient sentinel of a solitary land,' is majestic and glo- rious pile of rocks, ice and snow. Its elevation, as approximately deter mined by vertical angles from triangu- lation station along Puget Sound by parties of the United States coast and geodetio survey, is 10,S27 feet. The mountain is surrounded by numerous enormous glaciers. One man. F, L. Persons, who has resided near the southwestern base of the mountain for five years, declares that there are no less than fourteen glaciers, twelve on the west, north and east sides, and two on the south side There are three craters, two of them totally extinct,