The Hartford republican., 1918-04-19
'YGU MAY SEE
| HIGH SIERRA
Yosemite Summer Visitors
May Also Enter Snowy
Fastness
CAMP OUT 3 NIGHTS
Mt.Lyell's Inner Shrine
And Summit lnspir-
ing Sight
CAMP OUT 3 NIGHTS

Il II you go TO Yosemite next sum
lmer, you should plan to visit the mon
lister mountain climax of the national
park of which Mount Lyell is the
chief. This is no one-day hike with
I|a luxurious public camp at the other
end of It. IL means taking enough
cany ing-out equipment along to en-
liable you TO spend three or four nights
A in the open. But after all that is no
Il great matter, for IL so seldom rains
II I'm the Sierra that tents will not be
necI ssary; comfortable sleeping bags,
n coffee pot. a few tins, and a plenti-
/ fulsupply of food will be all that is
necessary-besides of course, a good
Il guide. All equipment, including
guide and horses, may be got in the
valley.
The first night out from the valley
L should be spent in the celebrated
1 Tuolumne Meadows where you may
1 have plenty of trout for supper for
4 the catching; the Tuolumne is a CAPT
tai trout stream.
Lyclrs 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 along Kuna Crest with
its frothing cascades on your left, you
| will find yourself at lunch time at the
head OF the canyon facing lofty
shelves OF granite. far beyond which
loom glacier-shrouded peaks. These,
as you will see presently, are Mount
Lyen. 13.O9O feet, and its iianking
giants. Mcclure Mountain on the
north, and Rodgers Peak on the
south.
Scrambling up the granite shelf
andA1yer Donohue Pass, your horses
carry you through vast basin OF
tumbled granite encircled at its ma
jestic climax by a titanic rampant OF
nine sharp glistening peaks and hun
droay of spearlike points, the whole
cloaIed in enormous shrouds of snow.
Presently-just how you do not
know. so breathless is your gaze
ahead-the granite spurs inclose you.
And presently your horses scrambling
over impossible walls and shelves,
looms abov you a mighty glistening
wall which apparently forbids fur
ther approach to Lyell's inner shrine
But even this the agile horses sur
mount and you find yourself in the
SUBMITS very embrace. facing gla-
ciers and a 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
Thousand Islands Lake in the sadow
of Banner Peak. Your days ride has
been seventeen miles, and, at days
close. you find yourself at spot so
extraordinary wild and noble that
YOU vote 1t worth the trip thousand
tines had there been no Lyell on the
way. For Banner Peak. with its
1887 feet of altitude and its re-
markable beauty and personality, will
remain a vivid memory to your dying
day.
Leaving Thousand Island Lake the
next morning you may return as you
came-four days; three nights
or, far better, II you can spare the
time. you will linger an hour or two
I'm front of Banner before starting
and again, an hour or two in Lyelfs
inner shrine you then may camp al
the head of Lyell Canyon. spend the
next night at Tenaya Lake for the
sunset and the early morning, and
Jog leisurely back to the valley-hve
days; four nights.
Thus will you taste, in addition tt
the stirring beauty of the incom
parable valley, the glory of the Higf
Sierra in its nobelest expression.