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twg_000012927500 | was, years ago, the favorite haunt of a celebrated Indian hunter.] [Illustration {p.}: Southwest side of the Mountain as seen from Indian Henry's, showing North and South Tahoma Glaciers meeting in foreground, and Kautz Glacier on extreme right.] After long digging, Miser overturned the rock that was like the elk's head. Beneath lay a vast quantity of hiaqua. This he | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927501 | strung on elk's sinews--enough of it to make him the richest of men. Then he hurried to depart. But he left no thank-offering to the tanahnawas powers. Thereupon the whole earth shook with a mighty convulsion, and the mountain shot forth terrible fires, which melted the snows and poured floods down the slopes, where they were turned to ice again | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927502 | by the breath of the storm-god. And above the roar of torrents and the crash of thunder, {p.} Miser heard the voices of all the tamahnawas, hissing: "Hiaqua! Hiaqua! Ha, ha, Hiaqua!" [Illustration: Climbing Pinnacle Peak, in the Tatoosh. Elevation , feet. The route leads up from Paradise Valley, over the steep snow field shown in the lower view, and | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927503 | thence by a difficult trail to the summit.] Panic-stricken at the results of his greed, Miser threw down his load of treasure to propitiate the angry tamahnawas. But the storm-god hurled him down the mountain side. Miser fell into a deep sleep. Many, many snows after, he awoke to find himself far from the summit, in a pleasant country of | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927504 | beautiful meadows carpeted with flowers, abounding in camas roots, and musical with the song of birds. He had grown very old, with white hair falling to his shoulders. His ikta was empty, save for a few dried leaves. Recognizing the scene about him as Saghalie Illahe, he sought his old tent. It was where he had left it. There, too, | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927505 | was his klootchman, or wife, grown old, like himself. Thirty snows, she said, she had awaited his return. Back they went to their {p.} home on the bank of the Cowlitz, where he became a famous tamahnawas man, and spent the rest of his days in honor, for his tribesmen recognized that the aged Indian's heart had been marvelously softened | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927506 | and his mind enriched by his experience upon the peak. He had lost his love for hiaqua. [Illustration: A silhouette on Pinnacle Peak, with Paradise Valley and the Nisqually Glacier below.] Among the familiar myths of the Mountain was one of a great flood, not unlike that of Noah. I quote Miss Judson's version: WHY THERE ARE NO SNAKES ON | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927507 | TAKHOMA. A long, long time ago, Tyhce Sahale became angry with his people. Sahale ordered a medicine man to take his bow and arrow and shoot into the cloud which hung low over Takhoma. The medicine man shot the arrow, and it stuck fast in the cloud. Then he shot another into the lower end of the first. Then he | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927508 | shot another into the lower end of the second. He shot arrows until he had made a chain which reached from the cloud to the earth. The medicine man told his klootchman and his children to climb up the arrow trail. Then he told the good animals to climb up the arrow trail. Then the medicine man climbed up himself. | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927509 | Just as he was climbing into the cloud, he looked back. A long line of bad animals and snakes were also climbing up the arrow trail. Therefore the medicine man broke the chain of arrows. Thus the snakes and bad animals fell down on the mountain side. Then at once it began to rain. It rained until all the land | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927510 | was flooded. Water reached even to the snow line of Takhoma. When all the bad animals and snakes were drowned, it stopped raining. After a while the waters sank again. Then the medicine man and his klootchman and the children climbed out of the cloud and came down the mountain side. The good animals also climbed out of the cloud. | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927511 | Thus there are now no snakes or bad animals on Takhoma. [Illustration: Copyright, , by E. S. Curtis. Rough Climbing, an illustration of perils encountered in crossing the glaciers.] Childish and fantastic as they seem to our wise age, such legends show the Northwestern Indian struggling to interpret the world about him. Like savages everywhere, he peopled the unknown with | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927512 | spirits good and bad, and mingled his conception of a beneficent deity with his ideas of the evil one. Symbolism pervaded his crude but very positive mind. Ever by his side the old Siwash felt the Power that dwelt on Tacoma, protecting and aiding him, or leading him to destruction. Knowing {p.} nothing of true worship, his primitive intelligence could | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927513 | imagine God only in things either the most beautiful or the most terrifying; and the more we know the Mountain, the more easily we shall understand why he deemed the majestic peak a factor of his destiny--an infinite force that could, at will, bless or destroy. For to us, too, though we have no illusions as to its supernatural powers, | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927514 | the majestic peak may bring a message. Before me is a letter from an inspiring New England writer, who has well earned the right to appraise life's values. "I saw the great Mountain three years ago," she says; "would that it might ever be my lot to see it again! I love to dream of its glory, and its vast | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927515 | whiteness is a moral force in my life." Perpetual And snowy tabernacle of the land, While purples at thy base this peaceful sea, And all thy hither slopes in evening bathe, I hear soft twilight voices calling down From all thy summits unto prayer and love. --_Francis Brooks: "Mt. Rainier."_ [Illustration: Ptarmigan, the Grouse of the ice-fields. Unlike its neighbor, | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927516 | the Mountain Goat, this bird is tame, and may sometimes be caught by hand. In winter its plumage turns from brown to white.] [Illustration: The Mountain, seen from Puyallup River, near Tacoma.] [Illustration {p.}: Falls of the Little Mashell River, near Eatonville and the road to the Mountain.] [Illustration {p.}: Old Stage Road to Longmire Springs and the National Park | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927517 | Inn, showing the tall, clear trunks of the giant firs.] {p.} [Illustration: On Pierce County's splendid scenic road to the Mountain. Passing Ohop Valley.] II. THE NATIONAL PARK, ITS ROADS AND ITS NEEDS. There are plenty of higher mountains, but it is the decided isolation--the absolute standing alone in full majesty of its own mightiness--that forms the attraction of Rainier. | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927518 | * * * It is no squatting giant, perched on the shoulders of other mountains. From Puget Sound, it is a sight for the gods, and one feels in the presence of the gods.--_Paul Fountain: "The Seven Eaglets of the West"_ (London, ). The first explorers to climb the Mountain, forty years ago, were compelled to make their way from | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927519 | Puget Sound through the dense growths of one of the world's greatest forests, over lofty ridges and deep canyons, and across perilous glacial torrents. The hardships of a journey to the timber line were more formidable than the difficulties encountered above it. [Illustration: Cowlitz Chimneys, seen from basin below Frying-Pan Glacier.] Even from the East the first railroad to the | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927520 | Coast had just reached San Francisco. Thence the traveler came north to the Sound by boat. The now busy cities of Seattle and Tacoma were, one, an ambitious village of , inhabitants; the other, a sawmill, with seventy persons living around it. They were frontier settlements, outposts of {p.} civilization; but civilization paid little attention to them and their great | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927521 | Mountain, until the railways, some years later, began to connect them with the big world of people and markets beyond the Rockies. [Illustration: On the way out from Tacoma, over the partly wooded prairie, the automobilist sees many scenes like this old road near Spanaway Lake.] How different the case to-day! Six transcontinental railroads now deliver their trains in the | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927522 | Puget Sound cities. These are: The Northern Pacific, which was the first trunk line to reach the Sound; the Great Northern; the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy; the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound; the Oregon-Washington (Union Pacific), and the Canadian Pacific. A seventh, the North Coast, is planned. [Illustration {p.}: View Northward from top of Pinnacle Peak in the Tatoosh range | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927523 | to Paradise Valley, Nisqually Glacier and Gibraltar Rock, eight miles away.] [Illustration {p.}: Looking Northeast from slope of Pinnacle Peak, across Paradise, Stevens, Cowlitz and Frying Pan Glaciers. These two views form virtually a panorama.] Arriving in Seattle or Tacoma, the traveler has his choice of quick and enjoyable routes to the Mountain. He may go by automobile, leaving either | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927524 | city in the morning. After traveling one of the best and most interesting roads in the country--the only one, in fact, to reach a glacier--he may take luncheon at noon six thousand feet higher, in Paradise Park, overlooking great glaciers and close to the line of eternal snow. Or he may go by the comfortable trains of the Tacoma Eastern | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927525 | (Milwaukee system) to Ashford, fifty-five miles from Tacoma, and then by automobile stages, over a picturesque portion of the fine highway just mentioned, to the National Park Inn at Longmire Springs (altitude , feet). Lunching there, he may then go on, by coach over the new government road, or on horseback over one of the most inviting mountain trails in | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927526 | America, or afoot, as many prefer. Thus he {p.} gains Paradise Park and its far-reaching observation point, Camp of the Clouds (elevation, , feet). From the Inn, too, another romantic bridle path leads to Indian Henry's famous Hunting Ground, equally convenient as a base of adventure. [Illustration: Automobile Party above Nisqually Canyon, Pierce County Road to the Mountain.] [Illustration: Prof. | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927527 | O. D. Allen's cottage, in the Forest Reserve, where the former Yale professor has for years studied the flora of the Mountain.] Whether the visitor goes to the Mountain by train or by automobile, his choice will be a happy one. For either route leads through a country of uncommon charm. Each of them, too, will carry the visitor up | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927528 | from the Sound to the great and beautiful region on the southern slopes which includes the Tahoma, Kautz, Nisqually, Paradise and Stevens canyons, with their glaciers and the wonderful upland plateaus or "parks" that lie between. [Illustration: "Ghost Trees" in Indian Henry's. These white stalks tell of fires set by careless visitors.] Here let him stay a day or a | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927529 | month. Every moment of his time will be crowded with new experiences and packed with enjoyment. For here is sport to last for many months. He may content himself with a day spent in coasting down a steep snow-field in midsummer, snowballing his companions, and climbing Alta Vista to look down on the big Nisqually glacier in the deep bed | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927530 | which it has {p.} carved for itself, and up its steep slopes to its nv field on the summit. Or he may explore this whole region at his leisure. He may climb the hard mountain trails that radiate from Longmires and Paradise. He may work up over the lower glaciers, studying their crevasses, ice caves and flow. He will want | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927531 | to ascend some of the tempting crags of the ragged Tatoosh, for the panorama of ice-capped peaks and dark, forested ranges which is there unfolded. After a week or two of such "trying-out," to develop wind and harden muscle, he may even scale the great Mountain itself under the safe lead of experienced guides. He may wander at will over | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927532 | the vast platform left by a prehistoric explosion which truncated the cone, and perhaps spend a night of sensational novelty (and discomfort) in a big steam cave, under the snow, inside a dead crater. The south side has the advantage of offering the wildest alpine sport in combination with a well-appointed hotel as a base of operations. Hence the majority | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927533 | of visitors know only that side. Everybody should know it, too, for there is not a nobler playground anywhere; but should also know that it is by no means the only side to see. One may, of course, work around from the Nisqually canyon and Paradise, east or west, to the other glaciers and "parks." It is quite practicable, if | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927534 | not easy, to make the trip eastward from Camp of the Clouds, crossing Paradise, Stevens and Cowlitz glaciers, and thus to reach the huge White glacier on the east side and Winthrop and Carbon glaciers on the north. Every summer sees more and more visitors making this wonderful journey. But the usual way to reach the great north side, especially | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927535 | for parties which carry camp equipment, is by a Northern Pacific train over the Carbonado branch to Fairfax. This is on Carbon river, five miles from the northwest corner of the National Park. Thence the traveler will go by horse or afoot, over a safe mountain trail, to Spray Park, the fascinating region between Carbon and North Mowich {p.} glaciers. | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927536 | Standing here, on such an eminence as Fay Peak or Eagle Cliff, he may have views of the Mountain in its finest aspects that will a thousand times repay the labor of attainment. [Illustration: Government Road in the Forest Reserve.] [Illustration: "Hanging Glacier," or ice fall, above Cowlitz Glacier.] A visit to this less known but no less interesting side | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927537 | involves the necessity of packing an outfit. But arrangements for horses and packers are easily made, and each year an increasing number of parties make Spray Park their headquarters, spending, if they are wise, at least a week in this wide region of flowering alpine valleys and commanding heights. From there they go south, over the west-side glaciers, or east, | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927538 | across the Carbon and through the great White river country. They camp on the south side of the Sluiskin mountains, in Moraine Park, and there have ready access to Carbon and Winthrop glaciers, with splendid views of the vast precipices that form the north face of the Mountain. Thence they climb east and south over the Winthrop and White glaciers. | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927539 | They visit the beautiful Grand Park and Summerland, and either make the ascent to the summit from "Steamboat Prow" on the "Wedge," over the long ice slope of the White glacier, or continue around to the Paradise country and Longmire Springs. {p.} [Illustration: Leaving the National Park Inn at Longmire Springs for Paradise Park.] [Illustration: Copyright, , By Asahel Curtis. | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927540 | On the Summit, showing Columbia's Crest, the great mound of snow that has, most curiously, formed on this wide, wind-swept platform. This, the actual top of the Mountain, is , feet above sea level.] The west side has been less visited than the others, but there is a trail from the North Mowich to the Nisqually, and from this adventurous | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927541 | explorers reach North and South Mowich and Puyallup glaciers. No one has yet climbed the Mountain over those glaciers, or from the north side. A view from any of the trails will explain why. The great rock spines are more precipitous than elsewhere, the glaciers more broken; and the summit is fronted on either side by a huge parapet of | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927542 | rock which hurls defiance at anything short of an airship. Doubtless, we shall some day travel to Crater Peak by aeroplanes, but until these vehicles are equipped with {p.} runners for landing and starting on the snow, we shall do best to plan our ascents from the south or east side. [Illustration {p.}: Paradise Valley or "Park," and Tatoosh Mountains, | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927543 | from slope below Paradise Glacier. The highest of the peaks are about , feet above sea level and , feet above the floor of the valley.] [Illustration: On the Government Road a mile above Longmires, bound for the Nisqually Glacier.] [Illustration: Near "Gap Point," where the road turns from the Nisqually canyon into that of Paradise River.] I have thus | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927544 | briefly pointed out the favorite routes followed in exploring the National Park. The time is fast approaching when it will be a truly national recreation ground, well known to Americans in every State. The coming of new railways to Puget Sound and the development of new facilities for reaching the Mountain make this certain.[] [Footnote : For details as to | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927545 | rates for transportation, accommodations and guides, with the rules governing the National Park, see the notes at end of the book.] [Illustration: Snout of Nisqually Glacier, with the river which it feeds. Though much shrunken since the epoch when it filled the whole canyon, the glacier is still a vast river of ice; and its front, seen several hundred yards | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927546 | above the bridge, rises sheer feet. The new road to Narada Falls and Paradise Park crosses the Nisqually here. Automobiles are not permitted to go above this point.] Every step taken for the conservation of the natural beauty of the Park and its opening to proper use and enjoyment is a public benefit. Outside the national reserves, our lumbermen are | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927547 | fast destroying the forests; but, if properly guarded against fire, the great Park forest will still teach future generations how lavishly Nature plants, just as the delightful glacial valleys and towering landmarks teach how powerful and artistic a sculptor she is. Experienced travelers and alpinists {p.} who have visited the Mountain unite in declaring its scenery, combining as it does | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927548 | great vistas of ice with vast stretches of noble forest, to be unequaled elsewhere in America, and unsurpassed anywhere. In the fascination of its glacial story, as well as in the grandeur of its features, it has few rivals among the great peaks of the world. The geologist, the botanist, the weary business man, the sportsman, all find it calling | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927549 | them to study, to rest, or to strenuous and profitable recreation. Here is a resource more lasting than our timber. When the loggers shall have left us only naked ranges, without the reserves, the Park may yield a crop more valuable. [Illustration: Pony bridge over the Nisqually, on trail to Paradise. Note the granite boulders which the stream has rounded | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927550 | in rolling them down from the glacier.] *[Illustration: The road a mile above the bridge, overlooking Nisqually Canyon and Glacier.] *[Illustration: On the Pony Trail to Paradise. This trail winds through the dense forest above Longmires, crosses the Nisqually, and then follows Paradise River, with its miles of picturesque cascades. It is one of the most beautiful mountain paths in | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927551 | America.] Until recent years this was known only to the hardy few who delight in doing difficult things for great rewards. But that day of isolation has passed. The value of the Park to the whole American people is more {p.} and more appreciated by them, if not yet by their official representatives. While Congress has dealt less liberally with | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927552 | this than with the other great National Parks, what it has appropriated has been well spent in building an invaluable road, which opens one of the most important upland regions to public knowledge and use. This road is a continuation of the well-made highway maintained by Pierce County from Tacoma, which passes through an attractive country of partly wooded prairies | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927553 | and follows the picturesque Nisqually valley up the heavily forested slopes to the Forest Reserve and the southwestern corner of the Park. The public has been quick to seize the opportunity which the roads offered. The number of persons entering the Park, as shown by the annual reports of the Superintendent, has grown {p.} from , in to more than | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927554 | , in . In the same period, the Yellowstone National Park, with its greater age, its wider advertising, its many hotels, its abundance of government money, increased its total of visitors from , to ,. [Illustration: Sierra Club lunching on Nisqually Glacier. The huge ice wall in the distance is the west branch of the Nisqually, and is sometimes miscalled | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927555 | "Stevens Glacier." As seen here, it forms a "hanging glacier," which empties into the main glacier over the cliff.] For one thing, these roads have put it within the power of automobilists from all parts of the Coast to reach the grandest of American mountains and the largest glaciers of the United States south of Alaska. They connect at Tacoma, | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927556 | with excellent roads from Seattle and other cities on the Sound, as well as from Portland and points farther south. The travel from these cities has already justified the construction of the roads, and is increasing every year. Even from California many automobile parties visit the Mountain. The railway travel is also fast increasing, and the opening this year of | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927557 | its transcontinental service by the Milwaukee Railway, which owns the Tacoma Eastern line to Ashford, is likely soon to double the number of those who journey to the Mountain by rail. [Illustration: A Mountain Celery.] [Illustration: Narada Falls, feet, on Paradise River (altitude, , feet). Both trail and road pass it. "Narada" is an East Indian word meaning "peace." The | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927558 | name was given many years ago by a party of Theosophists who visited the falls. Happily, the effort to change the name to "Cushman Falls" has failed.] The new government road to Paradise and the trails {p.} connecting with it have, however made only a fraction of the Park accessible. The most important work for the conservation of this great | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927559 | alpine area and its opening to the public still remains to be done. Congress is now asked to provide funds for the survey and gradual extension of the road to the other plateaus on all sides of the peak. Pending the construction of the road, it is highly important that, as soon as the surveys can be made, bridle trails | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927560 | be built on the easy grades thus established. Not only are these roads and trails much needed for the convenience of visitors to the Mountain, but, with the closer approach of logging operations, they are year by year becoming more necessary to the proper policing of the Park and its protection against forest fires. For want of them, great sections | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927561 | of forest within the Park are liable to be swept away at any time, before the rangers could find their way over the scant and broken trails now existing. The request for better access to the other sides of the Mountain has received the earnest indorsement of the Washington legislature, the commercial organizations of the entire Coast, and the several | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927562 | mountain clubs in different parts of the country. Only Congress remains blind to its importance. Congressional action affecting this immediate area began in . A tract eighteen miles square, , acres, to be known as "Ranier National Park,"[] was {p.} withdrawn from the ,, acres of the Pacific Forest Reserve, previously created. The area thus set apart as "a public | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927563 | park for the benefit and enjoyment of the people" (Act of March , ) was already known to a few enthusiasts and explorers as one of the world's great wonderlands. In James Longmire, a prospector, had built a trail from Yelm over Mashell mountain and up the Nisqually river to Bear Prairie. This he extended in to the spot now | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927564 | known as Longmire Springs, and thence up the Nisqually and Paradise rivers to the region now called Paradise Park. Part of this trail was widened later into a wagon road, used for many years by persons seeking health at the remarkable mineral springs on the tract which the Longmires acquired from the government before the establishment of the Forest Reserve. | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927565 | [Footnote : For some years, Congress and the Interior Department spelled it "Ranier"! A well-known Congressman from Seattle corrected their spelling of the name of the forgotten admiral, and it has since been officially "Rainier National Park."] [Illustration: Washington Torrents, on Paradise River; a series of falls a mile in length, seen from the new road to Paradise and still | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927566 | better from the pony trail.] [Illustration: Portion of Paradise Park and the Tatoosh Range.] The Longmire road, rough as it was, long remained the best route; but in the Mountain found a tireless friend in the late Francis W. Cushman, representative from this State, who persuaded Congress to authorize the survey and construction of a better highway. Work was not | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927567 | begun, however, until . The {p.} yearly appropriations have been small, and total only $, for surveys, construction and maintenance, to the end of the last session. [Illustration {p.}: View from north side of the Tatoosh. . Crater Peak. . South Peak, or Peak Success. . Nisqually Glacier, with feeders. . Gibraltar Rock. . Camp Muir, on Cowlitz Cleaver. . | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927568 | Cathedral Rocks. . Little Tahoma. . Paradise Glacier. . Alta Vista. . Camp of the Clouds. . Reese's Camp. . Sluiskin Falls. . Paradise River and Valley. . Mazama Ridge. . Reflection Lake. . Van Trump Glacier. . Von Trump Park. . Kautz Glacier. . Pyramid Peak. . Tahoma Glaciers. . Indian Henry's. Dotted line shows South-side route to the | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927569 | summit.] [Illustration: Ice Bridge, Stevens Glacier.] [Illustration: Mountain Sports. Tug of War between teams picked from the feminine contingent of the Mountaineers.] The road, as now open to Paradise valley, is a monument to the engineering skill of Mr. Eugene Ricksecker, United States Assistant Engineer, in local charge of the work. Over its even floor you go from the west | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927570 | boundary of the Forest Reserve up the north bank of the Nisqually river, as far as the foot of its glacier. Crossing on the bridge here, you climb up and up, around the face of a bluff known as Gap Point, where a step over the retaining wall would mean a sheer drop of a thousand feet into the river | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927571 | below. Thus you wind over to the Paradise river and famous Narada Falls, switch back up the side of the deep Paradise canyon to the beautiful valley of the same name above, and, still climbing, reach Camp of the Clouds and its picturesque tent hotel. The road has brought you a zigzag journey of twenty-five miles to cover an air-line | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927572 | distance of twelve and a gain in elevation of , feet. It is probably unique in its grades. It has no descents. Almost everywhere it is a gentle climb. {p.} Below Longmire Springs the maximum grade is . per cent., and the average, . per cent. Beyond, the grade is steeper, but nowhere more than per cent. [Illustration: Copyright, , | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927573 | By J. H. Weer. Tatoosh Mountains and Paradise Park in Winter.] The alignment and grades originally planned have been followed, but for want of funds only one stretch, a mile and a quarter, has yet been widened to the standard width of eighteen feet. Lacking money for a broader road, the engineers built the rest of it twelve feet wide. | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927574 | They wisely believed that early opening of the route for vehicles to Paradise, even though the road be less than standard width, would serve the public by making the Park better known, and thus arouse interest in making it still more accessible. It will require about $, to complete the road to full width, and render it thoroughly secure. [Illustration: | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927575 | Copyright, , By J. H. Weer. Hiking through Paradise in Winter.] Of still greater importance, however, to the safety of the Park and its opening to public use is the carrying out of Mr. Ricksecker's fine plan for a road around the Mountain. His new map of the Park, printed at the end of this volume, shows the route proposed. | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927576 | Leaving the present road near Christine Falls, below the Nisqually glacier, he would double back over the hills to Indian Henry's, thence dropping into the canyon of Tahoma {p.} Fork, climbing up to St. Andrew's Park, and so working round to the Mowich glaciers, Spray Falls, and the great "parks" on the north. The snout of each glacier would be | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927577 | reached in turn, and the high plateaus which the glaciers have left would be visited. [Illustration {p.}: Copyright, , By Asahel Curtis. Waterfall from snowfields on ridge above Paradise Valley.] [Illustration: Looking from Stevens Glacier down into Stevens Canyon, and across the Tatoosh and Cascade ranges to Mt. Adams.] Crossing Spray Park, Moraine Park and Winthrop glacier's old bed, the | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927578 | road would ascend to Grand Park and the Sour-Dough country--a region unsurpassed anywhere on the Mountain for the breadth and grandeur of its views. More descents, climbs and detours would bring it to the foot of White glacier, and thence through Summerland and Cowlitz Park, and westward to a junction with the existing road in Paradise. Its elevation would range | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927579 | between four and seven thousand feet above the sea. The route, as indicated on the contour map, suggests very plainly the engineering feats involved in hanging roads on these steep and deeply-carved slopes. [Illustration: Reese's Camp, a tent hotel on a ridge in Paradise Park, below Camp of the Clouds (Elevation, , feet). This is the usual starting point of | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927580 | parties to the summit over the South-side route, via Gibraltar. See p. .] Between eighty and a hundred miles of construction work would be required, costing approximately $, a mile. Including the completion of the present {p.} road to standard width, Congress will thus have to provide a round million if it wishes to give reasonable protection to the Park | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927581 | and fully achieve the purpose of "benefit and enjoyment" for which it was created. Such a road would justify the Congress which authorizes it, immortalize the engineers who build it, and honor the nation that owns it. [Illustration {p.}: Climbing the "horn" on the summit of Unicorn Peak, the highest crag in the Tatoosh (Elevation, about , feet). The man | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927582 | who first reached the top is dimly seen in the shadow on the left.] [Illustration {p.}: Stevens Canyon in October, with Mt. Adams over eastern end of Tatoosh range on right, and Cascade range on left. The snow summits on the Cascade sky-line are "Goat Peaks." Goat Lick Basin is in lower left corner of the picture.] [Illustration: Sluiskin Falls, | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927583 | feet, just below Paradise Glacier, named after Sluiskin, the famous Indian who guided Van Trump and Stevens to the snow line in .] Talking with President David Starr Jordan of Stanford University a few weeks ago, I found that famous climber of mountains greatly interested in the project for better roads and trails in the National Park. "How much will | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927584 | the whole thing cost?" he asked. I told him. [Illustration: An eminent scientist practices the simple life in camp near the Timber Line.] "Why, a million dollars would pay for the upkeep of one of our battleships for a whole year!" exclaimed the great advocate of disarmament. Whether Congress can be induced to value scenery as highly as battleships remains | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927585 | to be seen. It has already done very well by the Yellowstone National Park, where $,, of government money had been spent on road building and administration up to July , . No one who knows the glories of that park will deem the amount excessive. But with its still grander scenery, its important glaciers, its priceless forests, and the | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927586 | greater population within easy reach of its opportunities for study and recreation, the claims of the Rainier National Park are at least equal to those of the Yellowstone, and they should be as liberally met. [Illustration {p.}: Nisqually Glacier, with its sources in the snow field of the summit. On the right is Gibraltar Rock and on the extreme left | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927587 | Kautz Glacier flows down from Peak Success. Note the medial moraines, resulting from junction of ice streams above. These apparently small lines of dirt are often great ridges of rocks, cut from the cliffs. The picture also illustrates how the marginal crevasses of a glacier point down stream from the center, though the center flows faster than the sides.] {p.} | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927588 | [Illustration: The Sierra Club on Nisqually Glacier. This active California organization sent a large party to the Mountain in .] It is not desired that the whole sum named be appropriated at once. Indeed, the recommendation of the engineers has been far more modest. As far back as , Maj. H. M. Chittenden of the United States Engineer Corps, in | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927589 | charge, wrote as follows in his report to the Secretary of War: A bridle trail around the Mountain, just under the glacier line, is absolutely essential to the proper policing of the Park, and very necessary for the convenience of tourists, if they are really to have access to the attractions of the Park. The trail should be so located | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927590 | that in time it may be enlarged into a wagon road. [Illustration: Copyright, , Asahel Curtis. Lost to the World, , feet above sea level, with an ocean of cloud rising.] This recommendation has been indorsed by Major Chittenden's successor, Maj. C. W. Kutz, and may be taken as expressing the conviction of the government {p.} engineers as to the | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927591 | minimum of work needed in the Park at once. For the necessary surveys and the building of the trails, Mr. Ricksecker informs me that $, will probably be enough. This is so insignificant in comparison with the good sought and the value of the national property to be protected and made accessible that its immediate appropriation by Congress should be | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927592 | beyond question. Nevertheless, half that amount has twice been asked for in measures introduced by Senator S. H. Piles, but in neither case did the appropriation pass both houses. It is to be hoped that the present Congress will give the full amount of $,, which will enable the surveys to be completed over the entire route, and trails to | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927593 | be built on most, if not all, of that route. Their widening into permanent roads will follow in due time, when the wonders of glacier, canyon and forest which they make accessible are once known. [Illustration: "Sunshine." View of the Mountain from above Sluiskin Falls at P.M.] [Illustration: "Storm." View near the same point an hour later.] The road recently | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927594 | completed to Paradise Valley should be widened, by all means, and made safer by retaining walls at every danger point. But it is doubtful whether automobiles will ever be permitted above the bridge at the Nisqually glacier. Some automobile owners regard the Park as an automobile-club preserve, and insist that nothing more be done toward the opening of its {p.} | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927595 | scenery or the conservation of its forest until it is made safe for them to run their touring cars into Paradise. This is unfortunate, because it betrays ignorance of the purpose of Congress in creating the National Parks, namely, the education and enjoyment of all the people, not the pleasure of a class. Moreover, no matter how wide or well-guarded | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927596 | the road may be above the bridge, it can never be wide enough to prevent a reckless chauffeur from causing a terrible fatality. It is necessarily a very crooked road, hung upon the high ledges of precipitous cliffs. While the road is safe for coaches drawn by well-broken horses and driven by trustworthy drivers, it would be criminal folly to | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927597 | open it to the crowd of automobiles that would rush to Paradise Valley. If automobiles are permitted to go beyond the Nisqually glacier, it should be only when in charge of a park officer. [Illustration {p.}: Looking down on Nisqually Glacier from top of Gibraltar Rock, with storm clouds veiling the Mountain.] [Illustration: Measuring the Ice Flow in Nisqually Glacier. | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927598 | In Prof. J. N. Le Conte of Berkeley, Cal., established the fact that this glacier has an average flow, in summer, of . inches a day. The movement is greater at the center than on the sides, and greater on the convex side of a curve than on the concave side. It thus is a true river, though a slow | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012927599 | one. The measurements are taken by running a line from one lateral moraine to the other with a transit, setting stakes across the glacier at short intervals, and ascertaining the advance they make from day to day.] Even from the older and wider roads of the Yellowstone automobiles have been excluded, although there are no large cities near by, as | 60 | gutenberg |
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