The daily Alaskan., 1913-12-08
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the descent must be made in zig gag fashion, and the trail is oyer slick rock, worn smooth from gla- clal action. There is no earth on this trail to help gain a foothold. Scolai creek is another glacial stream, full of Quicksand. There were five horses lost in this creek during September.
 After crossing ScOlai creek the trail leads five hundred feet up the side of a mountain and thence onto the moraine of Russell glacier This moraine has such a pitch that trail must be cut by each mush- CT in the summer time, the trail being constantly obliterated by the thawiug ice. Leaving the morame you encounter the moving ice of the 2 acier. There is about a mile and a quarter of this. The opposite mo- raine is very treaCherOus, especial ly at the lower end There is sue cession of "pot-holes" and deep gull lies, making travel not only dill cult, but exceedingly dangerous. Ihl is doubly true during the winter, 10 the obvious reason that any sign ot q trail is obliterated bv the snow, which is crusting and oyerhangins these gulIies proves a death-trap for any musher or his pack animals wh might make a mis-step.
 From Russell Glacier to the dig gings the only difficulty encounJ- cred is the fording of the headwa- ters of White river.
 There are no roadhouses between the mouth of the Chitistone, which Is practically the beginning of the trail until you reach the head Of White river, which is practically the end. There is one stretch of thirty miles where no timber can be had. Mushers taking pack animals with them must carry feed for the hors- es even in the summer, as pastures are few and very far between.
 As I have said before the ScoIai trail leaves the Chitistone trail af- ter fording the Nizina river. No unusually hard travelling is encoun- tered until you reach the upper ford of the Ni2ina. l saw one out fit of horses carried off their fec, quite a ways down stream, and tn" packs were wet through. One horse was loaded with sugar, flour and tobacco, and it was great mess after being wet. The flour of course was ruined. and most of the sugar was saturated with nicotine, reud- ering it worthless. The Nizina at this point is the same as it is at the first point we struck it.. Then the trail leads onto the Nizina glacier. The lower end of the gla- cier is practically impossible. ] per soually know of some experienced mushers, one of whom is known all over the north, who spent twenty four hours crossing this glacte" and would possibly have been hope l lessly lost had l not happened t2 meet and show them a way across. Leaving the glacier there is sum init after summit to cross, varying iu altitude from 1000 to 25O0 feet. There is no defined trail here. The climate in this region is very un- certain, rain frequently falling in th middle of winter. This makes trave.- ing over this trail impossible in the winter. Some outfits have gone up the creek in the winter, but there are a number of high waterfalls, al it is necessary for one to cut steps up the side of the mountain anI draw his outfit up over these falls with a rope. Sticking onto the side of a mountain, guessing where the trail is, fighting to keep a foothol1 so as not to muss up the canyon below is not very enjoyable eA- perience.
 The trail next leads in front oi the Henrietta glacier, which is aj- so live glacier. Then the route from there to the Russell glacier s about the same as from the Nizina to the Henrietta, extremely danger Ous in the summer, and practicable impossible in the winter.
 In two seasons work, the govern ment party was unable to get fur ther than the Scolai basin before April, and then only with light out fits.
 At the Russell glacier, the trail again joins the Chitistone trait which I have described above.
 The Chamber of Commerce ct CordoYa, which I understand is be- ing assisted by the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, subscribed $5,OOO and sent Mir. George c. Hazelet up the Nizina glacier. MT. HaEeIet re- turned after having gone about ten ,o{Yag m +b. ,1ocia,. rri,.fr,- Fb1F ny,