Williams news., 1915-03-11
A HIKE ID THE TOP
 0F BILL WILLIAMS

ouu A. w. 1OuuSoiOOu, oH Saturday, Feb. 27, at 9;2O A. M. started to the e>top of Bill Williams. We struggled very persistently until 4 P. M. before the top was reached. Our hearts were exceedingly glad and our energies were we'll used up when the summit was found.
 A few details of the trip will now be given:
 The snow was not so deep from Williams to the ranger station that we needed to put on our snow shoes. The snow was found to be two feet. deep at the ranger station and there. it was necessary to make use of the snowshoes.
 Emerson and I knew nothing of snow shoes until last Saturday, and SO there was room for. much fun. Under these conditions we could not make fun of each other.
 At the foot of the mountain the. snow was about two feet deep. My push-stick aided us many times ins telling the depth. All went we'll with us until we were about half way up the mountain. Up to that time our snow shoes sank into the snow but an inch or two. Having gone up Bill Williams several. times before, but not on snow shoes; it was thought best to follow the trail. That was the thing which got us in trouble; for the trail is down near the bottom of a small canyon where the sun shines but little! The snow in this small canyon was left very loose as the heat of the sun had not caused it to run together. In that canyon we struggled for at least twenty min utes, sliding, rolling, tlmbling andl putting. Finally I succeeded ins getting, to the place where the sun had shone enough to partially form a crust It was at that time that Emerson called to me to throw my push-stick to him else he could not get out of the canyon. We concluded we would not follow the trail but we decided we'd climb to the top of the long ridge of the mountain leading directly to the topof Bill. By this time the snow was seven feet deep. We found 1t a very hard task to reach the sum- init of this ridge because the bushes were so thick in many places that it was great difficulty to get our snow shoes between them.
 When we were in about one and half miles of the top, great groves of pines and aspens appeared be- fore us and of course there was much loose snow with which we had to contend. From then on to the top which was pretty steep ascent, especially the last half mile, we sank into the loose snow iron ten to fourteen inches every step- With the help of our very conyen- tent push-stick we reached the summit, as have stated before, at 4P. M. Some told us before leav ing Williams that we would not need the push-stick; but I wish to inform the readers of this article that we would never have reached the top without the use of it. The one who broke the way the last half mile had to use the stick and found it very difficult task even with it. I would take the lead awhile, then Emerson would lead.
 The snow at the summit was 12 feet deep. Of course, right on top it was some 8 or 10 feet since the wind had tossed it over.
 The two sandwiches and four Hershey chocolates which each of us had sustained us greatly. We most highly recommend Hershey chocolates for such 8 trip.
 With us we had two dry cells and we intended talking back to Williams but the telephone wires must have been down or grounded l (Gop4;,ol ,., .,o.-o Al