The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-13

past Glen Ellis Falls. the tumbiins: Wildcat River near Jackson, and if he. has planned his trip rightly there will be time in the same day to Ae- Ecend Crawford Notch, when 1t is most beautiful in scenic charm. I.s
 There are many fascinating trafls for the mountain climber who feels that he has not properly lived until he has scaled the precipitous sides .of Tuckerman's Ravine or clambered high above the timber line from the Crawford House over Sthe Crawford path and over Pleasaht's round dome, to Clay past the Lake of the Clouds to the summit and the old Tip Top House. Then from Randolph over the northern peaks lies another trail, with stone hut on the slope of Mount Madison built. and equipped by the Appalachian Mountain club, where a night is usually spent. a.
 Other mountain peaks that may be climbed are Mount Lafayette, the fa- vorite climb from the Profile House. Franconia and Sugar Hill, and often taken as a preparation for the diffi- culties of the higher mountain; Kear- sarge and Meat and Surprise and Chocorua, these on the east side and reached from Jackson, North Conway. Intervale and other east side resorts. Mount Prospect at Lancaster, Mount Agassiz in Bethlehem, Starr King at Jefferson, and Cherry Mountain, Pol- magoni, Table Rock and Sanguinarf at Dixville Notch; Mount Monadneck and many others tempt the d"ughty climber 10 test his endurance. Occa- sionally someone climbs to Eagle Mountain or up to the Great Stone Face, that wonderful profile over hanging the Lake in Franconia Notch.
 Does the tourist wish ito fish? The mountains are rich in lakes and streams, where the angler may Ircp his line Or cast his fly with a cer- tainty of reward in speckled trout. pickerel, perch or landlocked salmon. There are some famous fishing streams, some of them made so by the late pr. c. Prime, the "IzaaR Walton of America,'' who for the last forty years of his life made Fran conia his summer home. There the Gale River was his happy fishing ground, when he was so old and fec home to his trout preserve on the mountainside of Lonesome Lake.
 The Peabody River in Gorham and Randolph, the Gale River and Wildcat to the sea from Crawford Notch on the east side; the Mohawk and Sims stream. at Colebrook and Dixyille Notch, where are also trout preserves maintained by the Balsams. the Is- rael River at Lancaster and Jeffer- son. Woods, Fabyan and Twin Mountains are all stocked with trout and offer good sport.
 As for lakes. from the Connecticut Lakes and Diamond Ponds in the ex- treme northern part of the state. 10 the most westerly of the chain, pokes it's nose we'll into New Hampshire from Maine, and at Millsfield Ponds. one may find royal sport with rod and reel and the certainty of filling his creel with salmon trout of no small size. Profile and Echo Lakes in Fran conia Notch. Montgomery Lane and Martin Meadow Pond in Lancaster and Whitefield, Saco Lake at Craw- ford's. Squam at Holderness. Lake Lake and Averill Pond, the latter just across the line in Vermont,-all these teem with the specled salmon Fontin- al.is, and are stocked by the state every year.
 For majestic scenery nothing in the Mountains. The great upheavals of nature in primeval ages. resulting in the precipitous and rock bound passes of the three great Notches. the Craw- ford. Franconia and Dixville, with the smaller ones of Pinkham and Carter, make one at times speeches. With awe. s,
 There are wonderful Profiles-that wonderful one at Profile Lake. called the Great Stone Face, and worship> ped by savages years before the white man ever looked upon it: there is Daniel Webster's face silhouetted from the solid rock against the sky in Crawford Notch, on Mount Web ster, and the sweet profile of Martha Washington gazes out over the mar row pass of Dixville Notch from un- der her frilled cap. <
 The Sleeping Indian" and the Giants Stairs are features of ride up the 9OO-foot climb through Craw ford Notch. and the Great Franken- stein trestle and the Wiley Brook Bridge, the latter far above the Wiley House, where the famous slide occur 1 red, are also seen.
 Aside from the old Man. of the