The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1914-07-23

/ ing ceases. II seems like climbing
some endless ladder. only an occasional
misstep means a slip and tall and
coming I'D hard against your belt as
YOU fall the length Of your rope. Or
YOU 20 knee deep or thigh deep into the
snow. The man behind you slips and
as he tries TO recover his rope gives
YOU a vicious tug as though you had
caught and were playing a whale. You
stick YOUR alpen stock deep and hang
ON and as he RECEIVERS his footing the
pressure eases up. Pretty sooH one OF
the party says 1T must be way past
noon. never was so hungry ~ all my
life" The guide gazes up at the sun
and says "lt's about 10 O'Clock. You
look at your watch to prove hlm wrong
and find it is FIVE minutes Of 10,
Don't eat a single mouthfu Of that
snow" says the guide to one Of the
party. "lf you do you will never get
TO the summit. 1t will make you sick. "
After travelling seemingly for hours
YOU look at YOUR watch again and find
! Il is half past ten. I'VE will eat lunch
at that little outcrop of rocks this side
of the creyasse" said the guide. At
least we reached the rocks and as the
guide produced the lunch and handed
around the sandwiches and pickles like
John Ridd we thanked God for the
room there is inside of us. Two sups
of water apiece to wash down the
lunch and we worked our way back to
the crest of the ridge.
Now comes the hard part, Il" said
the guide. "See that your alpenstocks
are solidly placed. Plant your feet well
with the toe down and keep close to-
gether." At last we were at the ere
vase, which we carefully skirted, and
soon we reached the lifeline that
stretches for 1000 feet upward. 1t is
almost like climbing hand over hand
for 1000 feet, and when you slip it
seems as though your arms would be
: pulled out of the sockets. TwO-thiTds
, of the way up the lifeline one of the
party had to fall out of line. His lips
were blue and he could scarcely
breathe. Tying him to the lifeline and
J finding him a safe place to sit the guide
J united him from the Others to await
our return. Presently my knees and
: thighs cramped so ] could scarcely
bend my legs. Every movement was
] intensely painful, but had determined
to reach the summit if | had to drag
t my hind legs or go up without them,
so with inward grOans, / struggled up
r ward. The guide hammered and pound
t ed my legs till, though the cure was
Z about as painful as the disease, | could
f. move them somewhat. Three hundred
S feet from the top the lifeline quits and
a it is case of digging in your toes anc
your tingernails, but at last one after
e the other, we crawled over the edge
: and were on the summit.
J, Right here is where | run out Of
t language. No one can describe the
|. view from the summit of Mount Hood
i The day was crystal clear Below, to-
b ward Cloud Cap Inn, stretched thu
a greenish ice walls of Eliot glacier, will
# their crevasses and corrugations. Dut
l. north is a glacier which separates int
a two prongs, one of which is called LadI
y glacier and the other Coe glacier. Be
It tween the prongs is Barrett's spur
e Far below to the westward is Sand
If glacier. Between west and south /
Zigzag glacier. Almost due south i
m Whites glacier; to the eastward
70 Newton Clark glacier. Cooper spur
It up which we so toilfully climbed separ
il ates Eliot glacier. A strong odor 0
le sulphur caused us to look below an
Up from Crater rock a thin spiral of smok
lie or steam was drifting toward Sand
se glacier. Looking northward, we sa
in all their spotless beauty st. Helen'
Of Rainier and Mount Adams. To th
r. southwark we saw Mount jefferson tn
j. Three Sisters, Diamond peak, MOur
TO Thielson and Mount Pitt. We could nc
IS see Mount Mazama nor Mount Shastt
I'd where the Cascades and the Sierra
t. meet. With a glass Shasta can t
clearly seen, though. Looking wes
to ward, two silver threads are joined an
is we know we are looking down
ul where, more than two miles below an
le many miles distance, the Willamett
a Joins the Columbia. Lost Lake and Bu
Sc Run lake show smoothly and blueI
Or against the green and brown of tn
ly trees and the lake shore. Far to tt
III eastward a dark, irregular line mark
Of the Blue mountains $50 miles distan
Of The rolling yellow wheat fields of Wa
le co, Sherman and Gillian counties al
I'd spread out like some vast cloth of golt
iy From our lofty stand we could traC
~ the streams and valleys and study tt
I'd lay of the country. 1t is like studyin
Ne from an airship the topography of tt
IN state.
9. Stopping at Mazama rock, we opene
TX the iron weathertight box and wrot
n our names. There were six in our pa
IN ty to reach the top-tive men and or
er woman. "You are the first woman
n reach the summit this year, Mrs. Loci
lg ley," said the guide.
Those who reached the suit in oil
ne party were Joseph II. Albert, Pa
70 Wallace, Otto Krausse, Frank Wago
DIS knecht, my wife and myself.
he The coming down is story in itsel
st Sitting down with our alpine stocks fl
m break, we shot down the long stee
nd slops like lightning express at l
e. stop limited.
he In 1886 Hood was in active erruptio
OF 1t was in that year that an attemI
sk was made to rename the mountain
he They were to be called the President
nj range in place of the Cascades and eat
sy mountain was to bear the name of
ed president. Mount Hood was rechri
a. tened Mount Washington; Mount Jeffe
he son needed no remaining, as 1t has be-
ke christened by Lewis and Clark aft
President Jefferson, although the En-
q lish and Hudson's Bay people called
mt Mount Vancouver. Diamond Peak,
ed as it is usullay called, Mount McLoug
ed lin, was renamed Mount Madiso
all Rainier was named Mount Harriso
es but the names didn't take and we
IL soon dropped.
We Rainier was named in 1892 for re
he Admiral Rainier. Its Indian name "
mt Ta-ko-bet, meaning White mountai
so The Puyallup Indians called it TAX
he bet or Ta-ko-man. The Skagit India
Up, called in Ko-ma. The name W
er- changed by the officials of the Northe
Pacific, and the proprietors of the I
on coma Land company from Mount RAJ
lid ier to Mount Tacoma, General McCt
he yer, l.. M. Starr and James Steel,
be of Portland, the proprietors of t
lld townsite of Tacoma, thought by char
in ing the name of the mountain frc
ere Mount Rainier to Mount Tacoma tn