Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1919-08-27
Above tho Clouds.

(Ihree FORKS Herald, Aug. IT,
llave you ever taken q hike up
Mount Jefferson?
We doubt if you recognize the big
hill so miles southwest of us by its
official cognomcn, for to lovers of
mountain peaks and towering cliffs
Mount Jefferson is locally known by
the endearing name Of "Old Hollow
top'-the tallest and most in
teresting point Of the Tobacco Root
range Of the rockies, and one of the
!oftiest mountains in Montana.
While ut Pony last week it was the
pleasure Of the editor to become one
OF party Of six who made the as
cent up Old Hollowtop as far as the
highest Of the three lakes which
nestle close in the shadow of the
mountains crest, nearly 10000 feet
above sea level and about 900 feet
directly under the southeast sum-
nit Of the mountain.
The trip was made on Thursday,
July %'st, when the snow had all
disappeared except on few peaks
! and in the crater, where SHOWS, rain
and sunshine have combined to form
a glacier Of unknown depth.
With the exception Of some smoke
from forest fires in the western part
OF the State, the atmosphere and
! other weather conditions were ideal;
the party Of four horsemen and two
mixers were all congenial, and the
cight-mile trip to the lake was made
in little less than three hours. We
arrived at the lake shor, little
after the noon hour, with appetites
whetted to a keen edge by our climb
through pine forest and over open
glades, and the pure ozone Of
mountain air, and the good cheer of
the party, only accentuated the
iierceness OF gastronomic demands.
We arrived at our noon camp
ground to find that others had dis
covered and taken advantage Of the
attractive spot and built their camp
fires at the same place and drank
from the same ripping brook which
flowed close to our camp-ground,
fresh, cool and invigorating, directly
from springs and rivulets fed by the
SHOWS and glacier Of Hollowtop,
While we were eating dinner a
couple OF bald eagles flew over the
camp, soaring through the skies as
If to give us an exhibition of their
graceful flight, and to let us know
that mans inventive genius had not
yet achieved a monopoly of the skies.
Four of the party circumnavi-
gated the lake shores, while the
editor and Mr.. Mongold we're con-
tent to traverse the shores near
camp, or sit on boulder and drink
IN the mighty splendors that
abonnded on every hand.
Those who formed the party we're:
). ID. Land, proprietor Of the Pony
Creamery, and his friend. w. II.
Mongod. Of Mountain Rest, S. c.:
w. II. Adkins. Pony's popular drug
giSt; =. S. Dorsey. editor of the
Three Forks Herald. They formed
the horseback party. Robert Nc
Culloch, of Three Forks, and his
friend James Linn. Of Pony, two
husky lads Of ~ and IA years,
linked it" up and back without an
parent fatigue, and were first at the
lake and first home on the return
trip.
Mr.. Mongold, one of the party. is
a man 81 years young. and to the
surprise Of all he withstood the hard
ships OF the trip with the least ia
tiguc OF aSy Of the riders. He CON
templates spending the winter with
his son, w. b. Mongold, who owns
line ranch few miles southwest
OF Three Forks, and daughter at
Summit Valley, and he connded to
the Herald man that If he remained
over winter he would stay next sum
NOR all ;, for he likes our country,