Southern California; . Then to return to I?choMountain ! to watch thesun go down and the blueshadows creep across thewilderness of plain ! tosee the great world swoonsoftly into darkness, and_ -^5%, finally to see the stars _ ^?uXV;;iL*^^s?^ come out above, matched• on the plain by the twinkling electric lights of two cities ! It is a strange experience to be so suddenly liftedfrom the plain to the mountain heights in an hours ride,but the sensations are of quite a different nature whenthese same rugged mother mountains are climbed onmuleback or on foot. It is a feeling of power and pos-sessio
Southern California; . Then to return to I?choMountain ! to watch thesun go down and the blueshadows creep across thewilderness of plain ! tosee the great world swoonsoftly into darkness, and_ -^5%, finally to see the stars _ ^?uXV;;iL*^^s?^ come out above, matched• on the plain by the twinkling electric lights of two cities ! It is a strange experience to be so suddenly liftedfrom the plain to the mountain heights in an hours ride,but the sensations are of quite a different nature whenthese same rugged mother mountains are climbed onmuleback or on foot. It is a feeling of power and pos-session which dominates the mind of the traveler. Theremote places are to be won by toil, and every foot of theway is scanned in the ascent. We glory in the freedomof it, our hearts expand with the view, our horizonwidens as we lift our heads into the region of cloud andsky. The illimitable reaches of the plain become famil-iar to us, as we look not across them, but down uponthem, in an endless level ofblue. Mountain ran
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