The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1922-05-18

Lost Lake road through Lolo Pass tt
the Mount Hood Loop Highway on tht
Sandy river. At present, it will be
necessary to pass through portion o1
the Bull Run watershed, and the Port.
land Water Board has blocked move.
ments for extending the road on the
score of possible contamination of the
Bull Run water supply. The declara-
tion is made by those who are familiar
with the topography of the country
that such road will in no wise menace
the water supply.
The opening of the Lost Lake motor
highway is but the beginning of devel-
opment of the Lost Lake country.
Plans of forestry officials and enthusi-
astic citizens call for innumerable trails
to points of scenic wonder. Already
trails connect Lost Lake with Wahtum
Lake, and parties on past summers
have journeyed through the Hood River
valley for a week end hike from Lost
Lake, back by Wahtum and thence down
Eagle creek or Herman creek to the
Columbia River Highway. 1t is pro-
posed to construct new trails from Red
Hill across the clear branches of the
West Fork of Hood river into the for
ested area on the west side of the
mountain. Harder mountaineers who
have penetrated the hidden, small val
leys to the west side of the mountain
declare it the most charming region on
the great snow peaks great base. At
ter one once gains access to the snow
line region, it is declared that magnifi-
cent expanses of snowfield and glacial
surface are accessible. Crevases of
Coe Glacier. the pinnacles and snouts
of the ice accumulation are declared
remarkable.
Among the keenest Hood River val
ley mountaineering enthusiasts are Mr..
and Mrs. F. w. Rockhold, respectively
graduates of Stanford University and
the University of California, who were
to the Upper Valley, where
they have developed an orchard. They
have tramped into many wooded hooks |
around the great mountains base, and |
they both declare the region around |
Barrett Spur Incompatible in its set |
ting of little hidden coves, where hun |
dreds of species of wild flowers bloom. |
Numerous little lakes are found in the |
depressions of the small valleys, and |
snowfelds lap down into the very edge |
Of expanses of vari-colored blossoms |
during the hottest summer months.
To the Indians of the mid Columbia
section Lost Lake carries a signifi- |
canoe of tragic romance. In earlier
days the lakeshores, because of the /
fishing and the abundance of berries, |
was the annual rendezvous of hundreds.
Redskin legend. however, has it that
the aborigines were warned away from
the section by the Great Spirit. On
an autumn season while feast and
lance was in progress on the wooded
shores the participants were astonished
10 see white faun dash through their
midst, hotly pursued by pack Of gray
wolves. The deer swan to the center
of the lake, where she circled for.a
time and then dived to return no more
10 the surface. Medicine men pro-
claimed the incident bad omen, and
BY daybreak the next morning the
lquaws had pitched the last tepee and
he cavalcade of berry harvesters and
ishers was on a last trek from the
and of beauty and plenty.
The legend has more modern Sc
Iuel. In 1914 an educated buck and
lis squaw, hearing Of the prodigality
If blackberries and huckleberries and
he excellence of trout fishing in the
district, ignored the pleas of elders of
heir tribe and set off on an outing on
Lost Lake. A thunderstorm arose,
md lightning, striking the tree under
which the two we're camped, dealt Il
ieath to the little squaw. Indians to-
lay ride in automobiles, but whites
who know the confidence that they
place in such phenomena, regarded as
from the Manitou, say that
10 redskin family will ever camp be-
iide the placid waters of Lost Lake.
The nations white population, how
,ver, has no fear of the romantic epi-
odes so grievous to the red brethren.
The legends but add lustre to the for
,st wilds, and the white family will
eek to develop new romance in the
appealing wilderness, which with the
increasing stretches of
Dads and trails is being made one of
he states most popular Fairgrounds.