The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1906-06-28
MAzAMAS PLAN
1906 OUTING
WILL MAKE ASCENT OF MT. BAKER
Prospectus of MaZama Annual Onting
Issued Outlining Very Interest.
lug Trip.

The "Mszama" society was organ
lied on the summit of Mt. Hood, Jul,
10, 1894, by an enthusiastic party o
mountain climbers, and has steadil!
increased in number each year. An,
Iperson who has climbed to the SUNNI
of a snow peak on which there is a
least one living glacier, and the toI
OF which cannot be reached by any
other means except on foot is eligible
to membership. The corresponding
secretary is viii &. Steel, Lumber Ex
change, Portland, Ore. All thos,
wishing to take the trip must register
at an early date, as the committee
must know soon how many to provide
for.
The itinerary is as follows:
All persons Joining tue expedition
to Mt. Baker at Portland, Oregon,
will t Ike the IL :45 p. IN. train july
23rd. for Tacoma. The party will be
entertained in Tacoma July oath by
the Tacoma Chamber of Commerce.
Those joining at Tacoma will take the
steamer at Z O'Clock on the morning
of the 25th. The steamer will procee d
to Seattle where those Joining from
that point will leave at 8 o'clock.
The steamer will leave Everett at II .3C
a. IN. Anacortes at $3.50 p. M, and ar.
rive Bellingham at 5 p. M, the
same day.
The following description of the
mountain is given by Frank C Teck
ln the excellent prospectus which has
been issued:
Mount Baker (the true, poetic In.
dian name of which is kulshan, which
means, according to some of the old
Indians of the Lummi tribe, "Great
White Guardian, "Dis almost a perfect
dome rising from the midst of the
widest and most picturesque noun.
tain Businesses imaginable. Near to
the southwark are the many headed
Sisters, more than score of bare and
very rugged peaks of iawnand reddish
colored rock, each of the peaks beiL Q
approximately Z, 800 feet high. North.
ward is the jagged head of Shuksan,
another Indian name, signifying The
Mountains of Storms, =" so named be-
Gauss of the continual terrific noises
OF the winds and frequent avalanches
around its serrated and preciptous
sides, Shuksan is more than $500
feet high and its summit has perhaps
never been touched by the foot OF
man. This is in the heart of the
famous Mount Baker gold fields, and
rails lead to the bases OF many minor
peaks in the vicinity. The great can
yon CT Glacier creek is one of the
wonders of this wonderful region north
and northwest of the great done, aud
Prof. II. s. Ingraham, who assembled
klushan by way of Glacier creek in
1891, declared in his report of the ex-
petition: at is one of the most
striking in the magnificience of its
cliffs and scenery in the United
States"
Klushan, "the silent sentinel of
solitary land" is a majestic and glor-
ious pile of rocks, ice and snow. Its
elevation, as approximately determined
by vertical angles from triangulation
stations along Puget Sound by parties
of the United States Coast and Geode.
tic Survey, is 10,S S27 feet. The noun.
tain is surrounded by numerous enor-
nous glaciers. One man, Il. l.. Per.
sons, who has resided near the south
western 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 ale three crat-
ers, two of them totally extinct and
one still emitting sulphury smoke and
steam. There are two major peaks,
only one Of which is visible from Pu,
get Sound. They are of about equal
height, the aneTiod barometer of Ed
mund I. Coleman, who reached the
of both in August, 1868, in
dicating an altitude of l0,6l3. He
named the one visible from the Sound
"Grant, :" and the twin peak, which
he estimated to be about 500 yards
eastward, he christened SHERMAN. ;"
The live crater is on the southerly
side of Sherman peak in depression
at least 600 feet below the summit.
Two lesser peaks or beetling remnants
of the sides ct an enormous extinct
crater on the southwestern side we're
name Lincoln and Grant.
The mountain has been successfully
assembled by seven different parties,
as follows: Edmund I. Coleman,
August, 1868, party Of four men, via
the middle fork of the Nooksack river
Valentine V. Lowe, July, 1891, party
of eight men via sGlacier creek or the
north fork of the Nooksack; Miss
NeVins and party, August, 1891, via
the middle fork of the Nooksack; Prof.
E. s. lngraham, September, 1891, a
party of four men, via the north fork
of the Nooksack and Glacier creek b.
B. Dobbs, July, 1892, a party of four
men, via the north fork of the Nook
sack and Glacier creek; +. f. Hands
chy, August, 1900, a party of seven,
via Baker river, and Geo. g. Cant.
we'll, August, 1903, via Baker river. OF
the seven ascents, three were ,mude by
the northwest or Glacier creek ap-
proach, and two by southern or Baker
river route.
There have been numerous other
climbing expeditions in the Mount
Baker district, and Il. l.. Persons has
several times climbed to the summit
of the mountain alone. No one has
ever been killed or seriously injured
in any of these expeditions, although
in 1891 Richard Smith of Blaine,
member of a party attempting to
climb the mountain from the north
east side, acc dentally shot himself in
the arm while stalking goats above
snow line and died from loss of blood.
Hop Plckers,