Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-08-31
q Up Timpanogos Utah Grandest Mountain

-------------- IT IT
the great solitary mountain nesL.
I was n very ecstacy of delight an,
| am forgetting the glacier and ~
| party ascending It.
THE GLACIER.
| The glacier Is some 700 or son
| yards Cpossibly a little more) rrop,
| where II terminates in a small glacial
| lake to its crest. In width 1t In from
| 150 to ESQ yards There are no Gre
| vases In ~. Where It breaks Off and
| falls into the lake IL Is about a0 TO-
| thick. This face presents an appear
ance OF snow rather than of Ice. Tho
| lake is about an acre in size and very
deep. 1t was almost entirely covered
| with snow and Ice. On the side onno-
site the face of the glacier there is
perfect moraine. On the glacier were
several huge piles Of rocks that had
| fallen from the peaks above II In,
rot been asccrtained whether or NOT
| 1t moves. but If 1t does. and II proh,
ably does, IL is very SLOWLY Prof
| Swenson once drove stakes across If
| to ascertain II II moved but for some
reason or other they became loosened
| and disarranged and on his next visit
| he found his work all undone and no
| could determine nothing.
ASCENDING THE GLACIER
1t was long. laborlous climb nm
| the glacier. the climbers looking like
| black specks on a great white sheet
| On their way up they We're Frequently
| cheered by hugle calls PLAYED Nv
| Percival Young. a Salt Lake high
| school boy. The shrill notes set tbe
| wild echoes dying. peak answering
| peak until the mountain tops rang
and rang again with the music of the
| bugle calls. Percival was tho first tn
| reach the crest of the glacier. The
| others soon followed Soon thew All
| disappeared around a 1utting Graz.
| and none Were seen for considerable
time until three forms stood ont
| against the horizon on the very top
| of Timpanogos. They were Prof
| Swenson Bishop Swenson and percl-
val. They were the only ones In
I attain that proud eminence There.
| 1900 feet above the sea, Perciyai
I played the Assembly" While PLAYING
it Prof. Swenson took his picture.
THE DESCENT.
1 The party was soon reioined when
| all threaded their way back 10 the
| glacier and began to prepare for the de.
| scent. Various plans were discussed for
| all felt II was Il ticklish matter to gel
| down the glacier without accident per.
| CiVal found the solution to tho problen,
( though he was not looking for IT, Boy
| like, he was making his initials in the
| ice and snow with his aplenstocll when
his foot slipped and down that glacier
he went for 100 or 200 yards as though
| he had been hurled from a catapplf
1 The party sent UP Il scream Of terror
| until they saw him show up In the
| snow in slight bend in the glacier
| pick himself up. and wave his hands 10
| of laughter. He had unwittingly set
! good example and the others followed
It, All got down without harm or ac-
| cident though one of the party, lady.
| had Il rather rough experience, turning
over first Sideways, then heels over
head, bounding and bouncing like n
boulder rolling down some precipice-
like hill She came down IN way to
make the cataract of Ledore enylous.
BACK TO CAMP,
| The object OF the party had been at
| tanned. Timpanogos had been scaled.
The return 10 camp was without incl
dent save that while crossing a great
snow banks the writer slipped, and for
20 or a hundred feet he went down II at
| terrific rate and was only saved from
shooting into big hole in the foot Of
II or over a ledge by the prompt action
! OF Percival. who stepped out and tenn
porarily stayed his progress. he, too,
being carried Off his feet by his effort
, and both saved from a doubtless seri-
Gus accident by quick rescue by PROT.
Swenson.
Camp was reached some 13 hours aft
or leaving II In the morning. fire
was lighted light meal taken, beds
made. and soon all We're asleep, for
exhausted nature finds repose even
among rocks. God bless the man who
first invented sleep" The next morning
we were off bright and early for Wild
wood which was reached in couple
of hours.
And were we repaid for the hard la
Dor, the exhaustion, the risks run the
difficulties overcomef Yes, hundred
times over. The memory of the "trip is
lmperishable and win grow more glori-
Gus as the years pass until for those
who went there are no more years 10
| pass.
"Nawthin' pay, nawthn' vaily.,