. To California and back;. oned banks to allure the visitor, flowers riot intheir season, and the aspens have whole hillsides tothemselves; soft, twinkling bowers of delicate green,dells where one could wish to lie and dream throughlong summer hours. The bridle-path begins, withthe conventional zigzag of mountain-trails, at thefoot of a steep grass-grown terrace that lies in fullview of the spreading panorama below. Above thatsunny girdle the trail winds through a more typicalmountain-forest, where dead stalks of pine and firare plentifully sprinkled among the living, and uglyswaths show where
. To California and back;. oned banks to allure the visitor, flowers riot intheir season, and the aspens have whole hillsides tothemselves; soft, twinkling bowers of delicate green,dells where one could wish to lie and dream throughlong summer hours. The bridle-path begins, withthe conventional zigzag of mountain-trails, at thefoot of a steep grass-grown terrace that lies in fullview of the spreading panorama below. Above thatsunny girdle the trail winds through a more typicalmountain-forest, where dead stalks of pine and firare plentifully sprinkled among the living, and uglyswaths show where the avalanche has passed. Abovethis, for the remaining few hundred feet, the peaksstand bare—stern, swart crags that brook no mantleexcept the snows, encompassed by a quiet which onlythe wind redeems from everlasting silence. The outlook from Humphreys Peak is one of thenoblest of mountain-views. It commands a recog-nizable territory of not less than seventy-five thou-sand square miles, with vague shadowy contours be-41.
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