The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-09-21

at 8 O'Clock in the morning, Septem-
Der Is, with seven saddle horses and
Ford car, Mr.. Twitchell driving
the car and Blaine Fansler and
Harold Dial in charge OF the
horses. An hours trip brought the
party about five miles up the can
yon, as far as it was practical to
drive a car. There were pools OF
clear, cold water in the creek at
places, but for the most part it was
dry. A water bag was filled and
carried along on one Of the saddles,
and two hours ride on the horses
brought the party to the summit OF
South Putnam, marked II" on the
picture.
Refer to the picture and note the
road crossing the creek bottoms at
the right of the ranch. tx" indicates
where the road goes up on the
bench. Then it swings back past
"a" and "B" into the canyon and
leads up to the left of the big body
of pine timber shown at "C". The
road and trail go around back of the
forest, &c" and and peak CD,
gradually rising to the low place or
saddleback "E". At this point Mr..
Twitchell rolled rock off the ridge
and it split in twos and the piece ran
sidewise and fell fiat. Then he got
another and, forgetting his own
safety, heaved it down the slope,
where it was so steep he could not
stop himself Try as he would to
stop or curve sideways he kept on
descending. He tried skating and it
did not slacken his speed much and
he rushed on straight at some pine
trees 800 feet below where he
started the rock. By great effort he
turned aside enough to miss the
trees and stopped in the edge Of the
brush. After the scare was over and
Mr. Twitchell climbed back up to
the party, they all congratulated
him on his safe return and each one
admitted that he never saw the rock,
so busy were they all, watching the
fate of the man who heaved 1t. The
rest of the climb up to II" is on
open ground with rocky stretches.
On this part of the trip, greater
stretches of the valley come into
view. and on reaching the pinnacle
at "r', the great valley west Of the
range, the valley Of the south fork
of Ross Fork, come into view, with
all the group of mountains west and
south to Snake river, and on a clear
day, the buttes in the desert, the
Lost river mountains, the Salmon
river and some of the Saw Tooth
ranges pierce the western sky, while
to the eastward the Caribou mount
aims, Sheep mountain, some OF the
Wasatch range and to the northeast,
the Grand Teton stand out like
icicles. in the sun.
On this occasion the sky was
hazy and the distant peaks and
ranges were lost in the blue-grey Of
the intervening distances, ranging
from fifty to 200 miles. The prin-
cipal value Of the views as obtained
by this party were the views OF the
landscape in the nearby mountains
and canyons and the nearby val
legs out as far as the lava beds on
the north and west, and the study OF
the great network of mountains,
streams and roads to the northeast
and eastward.
The wagon road can be seen like
broken threads for great distances,
and grain fields can be seen very
plainly in Grave Creek, Chesterfield,
Grace, Alexander and beyond the
Blackfoot river. The Chesterfield
reservoir lies comparatively close in
on the east, but only strips Of the
Blackfoot reservoir can be seen over
the tops Of the low ranges to the
eastward. The valley on the west
of Mt. Putnam is the most beautiful
of all, being piece of patchwork of