St. Johnsbury Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-1920, 1920-09-01
Camping Out in the Wilds
of Yellowstone Park
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! days among the trec5 ANA Ch,pp2-
ways and spent his young manhood
Is interpreter for The Hudson Bay
Company We shall never forge, the
wonderful work lie did in taking Us
from Shoshonc GcySer Basin to the
head waters OF the Bcchler River,
thru Il tr;,cklcSs wilderness, avoiding
thlckCta OF Jack pines and I'M
paSatbic canyons, clutches, and
draws with an instinct that WI fair
uncanny. That night at the camp
fire | asked him if h. never u>cI Il
compass. In disgust he said "No! one
Of them things wo;lld confuse me ali
up!' =.
"Jim,' the cook is no less i
character. Raised in Tcy;ts, he III
"punchcd cows" iii the Black Hills
and .frtn much service Is Range in
the Park. The wav he can handle d
clutch oxen" would turn Il Maine
nui'lc with h.; "rcilectcr", girvn with
envy.
When We move camp. which ONE
times occurs day after day and SONG
times. aftcr't two or three day. in ore
location. Horace is @out after III"
hor*cs, which arc hobhlcd or rickrtcd
to rraZc, a. som n; it il light. by
the time he has them in, Jim hHa
breakfast of bacon or trout, potatoc;;
and biscuits or hot cakes. ready and
the party, their tents and bets rolled
and pack; v,cll made. NY lon" OK
pcriencc with Il pack train nov comes
in handy and the work of loa!ing and
throwing the diamonds is quickly
Owe.
Now Horace. who ride; q beautiful
pinto and leads the he'll mare, Il
wondcrfullv wise buckskin. heads tho
procession, the pack horses and
mules fall in line. followin" stop foH
step the course the buckskin takes,
JUMPING the same logs and bitches.
skillfully wigglin" between the same
trees, a case of "follow you" leader"
in every sense of tho word, and III
rest of Us with our saddle horses
bring up the rear. And such horses!
We have rid'lcn through thckctS
10 crawl and up and down mountains
where q MN can only climb with
great difficulty, yet none of them
have ever missed a step. Horace,
with iustii.able pride, Says they will
go anywhere q goat can and | am
prepared to believe him.
We have spent nearly all the past
week in the Bcchlcr River valley, Il
REGION almost unknown, which
schcmers in Idaho almost snatchcd
away last winter, through action OF
Congress-. for irrigation purposes.
II had been been represented as 4
dcsclatc swamp. We found it I'M
qucstionably The most beautiful val /
leg in the Park, aii'ordinpa world OF
feed for elk and moose which spend
their summers in the mountains
above it.
As its head, from the plateau
above, no less than eight streams
leap over wonderful falls and cascad-
cs, rivaling these Of any of the other
Park streams save the Great FALL. Of
the Yellowstone. and the trout fish
ING is real work for one can hardly |,
place fly Oh the water but Il fish, /
sometimes ranginr up, to foul or five !
pounds, will be after it.
Near tho RIM rock of one Of tho
Canyon walls, 500 feet above the
valley. VIC found beautiful unmnp-
ped and unnamed lake, deep and
cool and clear, which probably never
hccH seen by y dozen white men. We
named it Lake Rachel for one Of our
party. II has no fish but will be
stocked in the near future.