Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-06-21

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you should plan to>visit the mon
ster mountain climax of the ma
tiOnal park of which Mount Lyell
is the chief. This is no one-day hike
with a luxurious public camp at the
other end of it. 1t means taking
enough camping-out equipment along
to enable you to spend three or four
nights in the open. But after all that
is no great matter, for it so seldom
rains in the Sierra that tents will not
: be necessary; comfortable sleeping
bags, coffee pot, few tins, and
plentiful supply of food will be all
that is ecessary-besides, of course,
a good guide. All equipment, includ-
ing guide and horses, may be got in
the valley.
The first night out from the valley
should be spent in the celebrated
TuoIumne Meadows where you may
have plenty of trout for supper for
the catching; the Tuolumne is a capt.
tai trout stream.
LyeIPs Inner Shrine.
After an early trout breakfast, your
outfit will travel up the river to the
mouth of Lyell Fork, and, swinging
around Johnson peak, will follow
that beautiful stream miles up its long
scenic canyon. Past Rafferty, peak
and Parsons peak on your right, and
skirting long Kuna Crest with its
frOthing cascades on your left you Will
find yourself at lunch time at the bead
of the canyon facing lofty shelves of
granite, far beyond which loom glacier
shrOuded peaks. These, as you will see
presently. are Mount Lyell, 1900 feet,
and its thanking giants, Mcclure noun
tain on the north, and. Rodgers peak
on the south.
Scrambling up the granite shelf ana
over Donohue pass, your horses carry
YOU through a vast basin of tumbled
granite encircled at its majestic ell
max by a titanic rampant of nine sharp
glistening peaks and hundreds of spear
like points, the whole cloaked IN enom-
nous Shrouds of snow.
Presently-just how you do not
know. so breathleSS is your gaze ahead
the granite spurs inclose you. Ana
presently YOUR horses scrambling over
impossible walls and shelves, looms
above YOU mighty gliStenlng wall
which apparently forbids further APP
proach to LyelTs inner shrine. But
even this the agile horses surmount
and you find yourself in the summit 5
very embrace, facing glaciers ana
lakelet of robin's-egg blue. This IS the
Sierra's climax
Thousand Island Lake.
Passing south along the John Muir
trail YOU cross the Yosemite boundary
and in a couple of hours camp at Ihou-
sand Island lake in the shadow OF
Banner peak. Your days ride mas
been seventeen miles, and, at day 5
close You find yourself at spot SO
extraordinarily wild and noble that
YOU vote it worth the trip Thousand
times had there been no Lyell on the
way For Banner peak, with It's T.
ORR feet of altitude and its remark
able beauty and personality, VIII re-
main a vivid memory to your dying
day. a..
Leaving Thousand Island lake the
next morning you may return as you
came-four days; three nights.
Or. far better. if you can spare tne
time. YOU will linger an hour or two IN
front of Banner before starting anu'
AGAIN an hour or two in Lyelfs inner
shrine: you then may camp az tns
head of Lyell canyon, spend the mex.
night at Tenaya lake for the suhse.
and the early morning, and jog ieis-
urely back to the valley-five Gays
four nights.