Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1907-12-05
A TRIP TO MOUNT LENT.
fCoMMUNICATED.1

On a bright sunny morning Of October,
starting out from the little town of Thur
mont lying at the base of the Catoctin
spur of the Blue Ridge mountains inquest
of Photographic views of some of the
beautiful scenic landscapes for which this
section of country is 80 famous, we pass
ed through the Owens Creek gorge at
High Bridge and along the w. M. Rail-
road.
When nearing Deerfeld, there rose up
before US sharp, majestic bluff of the
northern spur of the Catoctin spur, in
beauty and majesty so sublime as to in
duce us to turn aside from our original
intention to investigate and enjoy the
prospective scenery of which 80 advanta-
geous an elevation gave promise.
Turning away from the county road in
to q narrow private roadway that brou't
us directly to the base of this mountain
bluff, we then began an ascent over q
roadway made by the owner of most
beautiful property we discovered at the
end of our journey. This roadway wound
back and forth in double s form around
prominent projecting points overhanging
perpendicular heights, and arorn i'm
mense boulders that would do justice to
and compare favorably, for romantic
scenery, with the Rocky mountain region,
under cover of arching boughs that en-
tirely shut out from view the lowland
landscape below US. On either hand
grew in luxuriance and beauty fern and
wild flowers in profusion, which, with
the rugged natural formation, produced
a sense of exquisite romance and natures
freedom, intensified by the exhilerating
effect of the rarified air of such an alti-
tule, Is must appeal to most indifferent
to natures beauty.
On reaching the summit, there was dis
covered las one discovers abruptly the
summit of Pixies Peak on trip on the
cogg road that carries you Up its sides)
most beautiful stone cottage with wide
verandas, t.sty terracing and general e.;
idence of quiet and rest.
Here we were nioat &C: daily received
by the owner ard builder of the cott,.ec
and roadway and whose name has been
given to this mountain resort and her
companion in her life work of relieving
tie sufferings of those more unfortunate
and helpless. Being shown through the
cottage, we discovered it elegantly fur
nished and containing all convc: i.nces
that 20 to minister to comfort and ease.
Being shown to a small clearing in =
woods on point that projects northwcrd
from the mountain, and sloping of abb
ruptly to the valley below, there broke
upon our view the valley embracing Deer
field, Sabillasville, the new Tubercular
Hospital grounds and part of Blue Ridge
Summit; view for beauty and eXpanse,
and producing sense Of awe and arpre-
citation of the Creators handiwork, felt
only before when some years ago scaling
the heights of Cheyenne mountain, Colo
RADIO, and looking out from an altitude Of
5000 feet through the gorge over the
prairies for distance of $50 miles to
where the earth and sky seemed joined
in one. We drank in this beauty with
reverence and longed for more.
We returned to our humble home am
ply repaid for diversion from an original
plan, and the expenditure of energy and
time necessary to reach the top of Mount
Lent.