The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1927-02-18

an enormous trench across our path.
II seemed unending to right and to
left Here the tracks which we had
been Following danced about over q
small area and then turned downward
again. The only possibility seemed
to be offered by a weakness In the Op-
posing wall some hundred feet to
left. 10 cut steps up such a wall
would De a task requiring at least two
or three hours, If it were practicable,
and this was doubtful. A really for
midaDle work Of excavation would be
necessary. However, it seemed worth
while to look closer. So we wandered
up to a point to the left to survey the
obstacle to better advantage.
"The result was a delightful anti
climax. Less than 20 yards beyond
our former limit Of vision the great
impossible chasm suddenly narrowed
to nothing. Just at that point where
It ceased a brother chasm, even larger,
opened but between them, athwart
the obstacle lay a neat connecting
Edh5 ~ 0bOuI d. W4uG dS a 5uA0CA
path, and just as easy TO follow. A
short detOur for the preceding party,
when we reflected that they had been
defeated by a difference Of some ten
feet only in their line Of vision"
Easy progress followed until they
came to the last pinches. A light fall
of snow the previous week made the
going pOwdery, and the snow had to
be padded down solidly. At the rate
Of 100 feet an hour they reduced the
distance between them and the last
wall, which was the tallest.
"The angle of the slope was far too
sharp for any risks to be taken" says
Miss Pulley. "a slip would have termi-
mated long before the party could have
checked itself in the blue-black depths
of a lovely but sinister crevasse thai
> gaped below. Just as we braced our
selves for a tOilsome and difficult hOul
the snow improved again. It grew
= deeper and moist enough to bind unde'
the foot If carefully and repeated!
trodded down. How the heart tighten
at the last prospect! The sky seem
more cheerful. The distance shrinkS
: : Fresh energy wells up In mind an
body. Anon we were there"
= Crosses the RaVine.
n As they crossed a low belt Of roc
in the snow below the plateau the
% found, with some establishment, a Ion
D. thin piece Of sash-line, tied to tn
rocks and hanging in a loose end.
looked thin and frail al though
re might have been there for many year
a. "The first party, and probably the on
q other party to climb the mountain
our route, descended in their OV
st tracks," says Miss Pulley. "ThiS vi
in 1905. No doubt they fixed tn
St niece of rope to aid them in their q
ly scent. To think of it swaying the
or aloft on that unvisited slope in t
he winds Of 20 years gives the mind
odd and not unpleasant thrill. IT
en- vestige of humanity seemed to a
I'm something to the wildness Of {
wv mountain rather than to detr'
ell from 1t.
In 1--WE had anticipated a cold wind
Sc the final stages" says Miss PHI
to "and now, as we made the last
We steps and swung ourselves over
sharp edge onto comparatively lie
Try ground it was a pleasant surprise
find only a moderate breeze blow
ed and the mist ~enshrouding US S
The through and through with sunlight
ur- little later we stood on the do,
i've sbaped summit looking out in all
eri- rections over a broken wilderness
me cloud masses, pierced irregularly y
tn, black outlines of lower hills"
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