The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-01
REV. HUBBARD RETURNSFROM
 EXPLORATION
Noted Glacier Priest De- scribes Beauty of Mt.,
 Katmai Crater

VerSlty Of Santa Clara, Cal, re- turned on the Admiral Evans this afternoon from the Westward where he has been exploring the desolate Katmai region with his compan- ions, Roderick Chisholm, Charles Bartlett and Frank Klatt, students at Santa Clara University.
 MT. Bartlett and MT. Klatt con- tinue to the States on the Ad- miral Evans, but Father Hubbard and MT. Chisholm will remain in Juneau for a week to develop the photographs taken during their pcrilous exploration in the Katmai region. Over 800 still photographs were taken and 4000 feet of moving pictures, according to Father Hub bard
 Summers Work
 Concerning the summers work, Father Hubbard said
 We feel that we have seen, un- der ideal conditions, the foremost wonder of the world, the stupen- dous crater of Mt. Katmai The Valley of Smokes, though spectacu- lar and intensely interesting, was nothing in comparison to the color ful, gigantic, terribly beautiful mountain.
 Struggled On
 we were put off at Katmai Bay and, through rain and quicksands, struggled on toward our destina- ton. On the third day the barome- ter rose and the sky became beauti- fully clear. Bartlett and I acci- dcntally gained too high an eleva- ton on Observation Mountain, and finding ourselves hung up on pre- cipitous cliff, signalled to "Red' and Klatt in the valley below, to continue to the hot spring and make camp, while we ascended to the peak.
 "The extra climb was worth the effort, because we had clear pam oramic view of Katmai and erupt- ing Martin and Nakeig yolcanos. Tn addition to wonderful moving pictures and stills of the entire re- zion, 1 was able to pick out 'feas- able route over the treaeherous ash- covered glaciers on Mt. Katmai
 Late that evening Bartlett and I rejoined Red" and Klatt, and the next morning we decided to take advantage of the clear wealth CT, and attempt Mt Katmai. Hours of hard glacial work and traversing seemingly interminable snow fields
 brought us to the sight of sights the crater of Katmai. J.
 We peered over the edge, down over multi-colored cliffs, sheer for thousands of feet and ending in a turquoise- blue lake. The margin , of the lake was lined with smoking . fumeroles and sulphur vents that
 tinged the blue water with convec- ton layers of yellow, until it chang ed like the proverbial witches oils
 Glacier and snow fields cling to the precipitous sides of the crater 1 and hrlrtle down into the lake /. Cannot Describe
 Words cannot describe the scene
 adequately. One lives such moments , of deep feeling, that intangible. but , highest form of expression. But we had to get prosiac soon enough The two boys soon caught up witr us and I attempted descent oi
 the crater. The neve of a glacier
 followed a rift to the crater rim l Down this I cut my way with. ar . ice pick until I came to the gaping
 bergschrund or marginal crevasse
 A steep snow-bridge allowed this tc
 be crossed and I made the bottom
 followed by Klatt.
 Photographs Preserve Zasss
 Movies and stills preserve the , scenes for the rest of the world tC
 see the wonders of the beautiful Alaska Peninsula. The dimen- , sions of the crater are awe inspir- ling in themselves. Its depth from , lcrater rim to lake is, in places, over O00 feet. The rim is eight miles in circumference and almost three in diameter The blue, cold lake | is about two miles across. After x getting all we wished from Mt Katmai, we returned to camp. A , terrific storm blew over from Boring 7 Sea and we had nothing to do but , hole up in our sleeping bags while , it .pelted us for 36 hours with rain sleet and pumice. Tackling Kat
 mai Pass, we came to the Valley , of Ten Thousand Smokes without l further mishap.
 Several days of investigations r picture and two thousand feet o1 , movies, added this scalp to our col ( lection. Interesting and spectacu- , lar was our ascent of active Nova l rllpta Volcano, and the crossing o' : it's broken, gas and steam emitting s crater
 "The strenuous weeks soon came
 to a close and we struggled into v heavy packs on the return trip. Ar p irving at Katmai Bay with our foot S gone, we awaited the cannery boa
 we had hired from Kukak Bay. |
 did not arrive for three days.