The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-09-27
VACATION WANDERINGS
IN THE HIGH SlERRAS

Dramatically San Francisco and its
environs seem as delightful and invig-
Grating summer resort for Honolulans
as the near mainland has to offer.
Bracing air, cool bathing and sports of
varied nature may be found for the
seeking. The mountain regions, wheth
er Sierras or Shasta, are conspicuously
hot during the daytime and limitessly
dusty. Our own wauderings took us
as far north as klamath Falls and the
famous Crater Lake in Oregon. Here
is certainly sportsman s paradise and
the tramper s Elysium. We were sorry
we had not more time at our disposal
when there.
Klamath Falls is self.conscous
town glorying in the vision of its own
bright future. 1t is the distributing
center of one of Uncle Sam S reclama-
ton districts and people are pouring IN
to take up the land that will soon be
available. 1t is the point of departure
for one of the most beautiful of Ameri-
ca Is scenic wonders, Crater Lake, Ma
tional Park. The government has not
yet gotten its grip upon the transpor'
tation problem there and in conse'
quence facilities for getting to the lake
are rather crude
The hotel concessionaire, the com
pany which runslthe mail boats on
Timer Lake klamath and the manage
ment of the White Pelican hosiery
the tourist headquarters at klamath
Falls which also operates Hartman
Lodge at the farther end of the upper
lake, are all at mutual odds. The trav
eler has to use hydraulic press meth
DDS to squeeze ont information from
anyone about either of the others, anc
the resulting extract is considerably
tinctured both with personal bias and
misleading detail.
However, we founu our way by tran
to within some thirty miles of Crater
Lake and fortunately connected will
the concessionaire s automobile, which
whirled us through splendid forests
with an Indian reservation thrown IL
where thirty odd years ago the poo
Modoc chief, Captain Jack, and his Ell
phoniousfy yclept lieutenant, Shack
nasty Jim, suffered for their crimes
thence up glorious mountain roa'
beside gorges that recalled our owl
Olokele Gulch, until the summit, sever
Thousand feet from sea level, towern,
above the matchless sheet of indescrib
able blue water, was reached.
Some three years hence capaclou
stone hotel will be finished and read.
for sightseers. There being only sixt.
or seventy working days in year il
that altitude, time is very emphatlcali.
of the essence of the contract to cree
this adjunct of civilization. We slep
in tents, kept away the cold by hug
ging a huge bonfire and ate IN a roug
lumber shack. Bad weather forbad
our spending whole day on the lax
to which one has to Chamber down
perpendicular trail 1900 feet below tn
camp.
Fancy Kilauea crater doubled i
diameter, its massive perpendicular
surrounding walls of rock from l2oo !
5000 feet high and its floor tn
surface of lake of purest water who's
great depth, mirroring heavens azure
Reflects TO the eve a rich indigo besid
which Capri s blue grotto would pai'
while to one side rises a Haleakal
cone, 500 feet out of the waters, an
crowned with a tiny snow-filled crate
of its own.
There is the same fascination abou
the scene that entrances the gazer int
Pele's fires, though the emotion
aroused differ in keeping with til
wierd beauty, the solemn mystery an
the uncanny loneliness of this wondt
of the eternal mountains. 1t is Nc
strange that the Indians feared to a
tempt its waters with their canoes an
held it peculiarly sacred to the Gree
Spirit.
The lake contained no fish unit
stocked by the government. Now
abounds in trout and other species an
the merest tyro finds his slightest e.
ertlons rewarded with a good catch.
is rather singular that the highe
point of the circumscribIng walls, 10!
feet. is almost exactly matched by I'll
greatest depth of water, 1896 feet. III
best commentary upon the attractlv
ness of the spot is that once visite
the Travelled is thereafter possess
with tie Unsuitable desire to go aga
and again.
How hard it is to get lost in the mo
ern world! Imagine being called
on the phone by man whom you hi
met only once, and that but re
hours before, with a message that
had lust caught on his private reeei
ing apparatus an aerogram from We
sci out on the Pacific, requesting "
TO be SURF and meet friend on D
arrival in San Francisco, together wi
a reply from the receiving station tn
YOU could not be found and that Hon
lulu must furnish more accurate
dress.
This happened TO us one morning
hotel thirty minutes before '
were 10 set out for lonely count
place with no telegraphic conneetio
whatever. From the point OF view
President Jinjo NaTuse Of the Jap
Womans University, Toxic, who W
very anxious 20 talk over the era
that is sending him around the wor
this conjunction WAS peculiarly luck,
Backed by the leading spirits OF I
empire, this publicist Is gathering
company OF advanced thinheTs
America, Britain, France, Germany a.
Russia 20 publish an Information
auareTly whose aim shall be 20 I
plain Orient 60 Oeeldent and West
Past in the Interests ~ world pea
and iutouacial brotherhood, The mo-
meni heais 40 drums aud does no iTg
petng. ~ method y one " qni
persistent peIfonhl iphuenee Do NJ