The Alaska daily empire., 1916-01-01

one even the summits of Mount Saint Elias and Mount Logan may be seen on the northwestern horizon. One of these peaks stands 1S.1O0 feet above the level of the channel. at the foot of the mountain upon which you stand, and the other tow CTS l9.50O feet aloft. and is the high est mountain. save only one. in North America. To the east the peaks at the head of the Taku river stand. ragged and sharp against the sky, below them are glimpses of the waters of Taku Inlet. and the inland passage for seventy miles north, for a hundred miles to the south. and out through Icy Strait and Cross Sound the eye may wan der till 1t sees the sheen of the Pacific ocean. All around Is a world of peaks tossed into the sky like the waves of a petrified sea. 1 This will very likely satisfy the
 ordinary adventurer for day. but
 If more is desired, the curves of the l iivide reach around between Silver
 Bow Basin on one side, and Sheep Creek Basin on the other, till it
 may be followed to the head of
 Sheep Creek. where you may drop down to the Gastineau Channel. at
 the mouth of Sheep Creek. near Thane.
 But the more popular route is that
 up the Basin road to Cape Horn,
 opposite Snowslide Gulch. where an
 other goat trail will take you Ia
 the edge Of the heetling cliffs of
 the side Of Juneau peak, where you
 look off into the distance. and
 sand feet down the crags before q
 foothold could be found; thence
 across the snowslide, at the head o
 the canyon. to the little cabin
 nestled in the spruce forest, tha' clings to the point which juts ov"l Gold Creek. and thence on througl
 the alder thickets. and above tha
 through masses of flowers to the
 summit of the mountain.
 From there the city of Junea; spreads like map below. the milky
 debris from the Alaska-Juneau mi! and that from the Treadwcll on th, opposite side of the channel, drift. away with the current Of the tide resembling the flow of the Miss issippi and the Missouri rivers wher, they come together. and run iol miles, the mud of the Missouri GU;
 ting a straigtly defined line again: the dark stream Of the Father O Waters.
 On the north slope there will b,
 found the snow corniccs Of the drift: of the previous winter. curving an overhanging the slopes that drol l away precipitously to the north. D 9 care in doing so, for those cornice are deceiving, and to venture Ol l. them is to invite a break at thu ) edge and a drop to the slopes below These are not the only places l Should the first ventures .-whet you appetite TOT more, go up the Bnsl: n Road to q point above the Red Mill | where there is a roadhouse with Il sign of Coffee and Doughnuts, l turn sharply to the left on the roa 7. that branches at that point, an t follow the waters of Granite Cree r 10 where it tumbles out of Granit s Creek Basin, under a great arch c d snow, forty to fifty feet wide, an n perhaps twenty-five feet high. an from there a wonderful mountai n valley, with snowbanks and Howe K beds alternating on its slopes an n with lakelets and sllvery stream p which meander over It's almost levt c floor will spread away before you e astonished gaze.
 n A day may be spent here wit s profit in botaniZing, but should r more ambitious aim be in mind, tn '' path to the heights of Mount Old d named for one of Juneau's pioneer r Is open to the climber. From tha