The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-04-19
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Goat Hunters Spend Three Days
In Storm ON Mauna Loa;
But Return With Goats

Lost in q rbIiadinE snowstefm in the
/ tropics is the ratherS ubasnAl expert
enCe Of Iirutenant wv. worthington
and Private John " sevarro Of Troop
ky-POurth Cavalry, who returned to the
military can "a on the mount ain Satur.
day morning after two days and three
: nights spent on the summit of Mama
l.oa, snow bound aud lost. In their
haversaeks they took back with them
to the camp. three yonRg goats.
Captain Hawkins, commanding the
troop, and Captain n. r. Griffin, NJ.
r, @. brought the story to HilO when
they came down from the mountain
Saturday night, says the HilO Post.
Herald.
t"Chmbing to the summit Of the
mountain was one Of the sports en-.
| jOyed by the officers and men earlier
In the week - said Captain Hawkins,
"Anh this in spite of the rain which
fell continuously, INCREASINGLY and all
the time. Doctor WOrthiRgtOn and Sc.
Varro, who is an Italian by birth and
early training, which proved to be n
mighty fortunate thing since he was
used to snowstorms In the Alps, start!
ed on hike1up the mountain, Wednes-
day afternoon.
Trail obnterated
| "As they expected to be out two or
three nights, they too with them a
plentiful supply Of bedding, which
proved to be another mighty COOL
thing. 1t was raining when they start.
ed from the camp, and by the time they
reared the top Of Mauna LOa, it was
showing, not few soft flakes, such as
one might expect Of a mountain snow
in n balmy place like Hawaii, Tut an
honest to goodness snowstorm that blew
In their eyes, and swirled around their
heads, and completely obliterRted the
trall-which isn't any too plain at its
best. .~t ~, -,
"To make matters worse. the smoke
and steam from the volcano up there
got mixed up with the snow, and
what with the three Of them, the
men could nee nothing ut al They
were not particularly worried, how
lever, for they thought the ytnrm
would break in q little while, SO they
Epitehed their camp and made them
selves comfortable for the night.
l. Thursday the storm was ain rag
ing like q regular Nebraska blizzard,
bnt 1t takes more than "A snowstorm
in the tropics to turn Doctor Worth.
ngton--he's the company ,veterinari-
an-~-from. his purpose, which happen-
ed to be goat hunting, so the two of
them set out on n tramp on top of the
mountain.
Reach Camp Finally
""That's how they lost the, trail. The
storm Just kept right on all day Pri-
lay, and all that time, when II was
light enough 20 see, they looked Tor
that lost tytii. BevarT0's early training
came, to their 'hid-in q ~enderful man.
mr. Doctor Worthipgton said that
without this mans KNOWLEDGE Of nj sun.
tain climbing they would doubtless
have come TO grief. They never did nd
the trail, because the snow hid II, but
they did get back to camp, safe aud
sOpud-rand with the three goats"
Mrster Johnny Griffin, Captain Gift
rin's sou wha was the mascot of the
narty, Immediately laid claim IN one of
the goats and 1t will be his beife low
if he hos his way about it--on the
Nauna Kea on the trip back to Hor oIu,
lu. "a
Doctor Worthington raid that the
rssibility OF being snowhound in the
Hawaiian Islands :wnsnt one Of the
pitfalls he had pointed out to him
when he offered his services to the gov.
eminent. =