The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1922-02-16
new VALLEY OF
PARADISE FOUND

Because they wished to live in a
mountainous country and make their
living by growing apples. MIR. and
Mrs. f. W. Rockhold. both college
graduates, came here from California
in 1910 and purchaed tract in the Up
per Valley south of Parkdale. For a
number of years after their choice of
a rural home spot they only spent
their vacations here, the winter
months being spent in San Francisco,
where Mr.. Rockhold was teacher of
mathematics IN Lowell high school.
Mr.. Rockhold is University of Cali
fornia man. His wife is graduate of
! Stanford.
While Mr.. and Mrs. Rockhold have
brought their orchard to the bearing
state, their friends predict that they
will some day make more money out of
hobby of theirs than they will ever
realize from their we'll cared acres of
trees. Both of the nature loving couple
are enthusiastic amateur photogra-
piers, and they have a COLLECTION of
more than 800 views of Mount Hood
scenery taken from all sides and in
many forested and lakeside hooks.
During spare moments they have found
delight in printing the pictures in
natural colors and many of them show
the glory of mountain meadows in
bloom. After much persuasion they
have made extras of their appealing
photographs for friends, and thus the
fame of their pictures has gradually
spread out. They may follow the
suggestion of friends and set up a cha
let on the Mount Hood Loop Highway
where, it is declared, the work of their
cameras will be certain to.attract tour
lists who love works of beauty.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rockhold have secured
most of their rare pictures while on
tours of exploration in the forests
around the base of Mount Hood. Both
of them declare that the great scenic
Mount Hood boulevard will never do
more than give the motor tourist a
mere glimpse.
at is true says Mrs. Rockhold, |
THAT the road will pass around the
peak high up toward the snow line, |
but the person who takes the trip hur- |
riedly will not see the real beauties of |
the scenic environs. 1t is true that the |
mere mot or trip, to the easterner and |
middle western resident will be a Ieve-
lation, trip into region of paradise.
For one really to get into the very
mi 1st of the paradise. however, it will
be necessary to leave the motor car
and penetrate the rugged wilds over
Grails.
Zone of the most beautiful parts of
Mount Hood will still be left remote
and fairly inaccessible after the great
Loop Highway has been completed.
Off to the west of the snow peak, high
up toward the point, where the forests
cease and the snow fields begin, lies a
little valley that is beautiful beyond
1t is as alluring. though
not as large, as Mount Rainier's far
famed Paradise valley. Here, as on
the Washington mountain, flowers in
almost uncountable varieties, blossoms
N a gorgeous array of colors in late
The views that one has of
he mountain from this valley are
more inspiring, we think than from
any other point. Here, high up to-
ward the perpetual snow, in the edge
If the last outpost of forests, is set
ewel of a lake. Dollar lake. it has
,een called because of it's size. per-
laps, and its shape. On placid sum-
ner day it is a mirror, rejecting the
,lue of sky, the green of the forests
md the white fields of snow peak.
After an excursion to and sight of such
,rodigal scenery, we fell that we have
indeed had our wish, for residence in {
and of mountain grandeur, filled to
he very brim. S