The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St Helens . ous. For its title they took the name mazama, Mexican for the mountain goat, close kin to the Alpine chamois. Member-ship was opened to those who have scaled a snow-peak on foot. By their publications and their annual climbs, the Mazamas have done more than any other agency to promote interest in our Northwestern mountains. Mount Hood stands, as I have said, upon the summit of the Cascades, The broad and comparatively level back of the range is here about four thousand feet abovethe sea. Upon thisplane the volcanoerec
The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St Helens . ous. For its title they took the name mazama, Mexican for the mountain goat, close kin to the Alpine chamois. Member-ship was opened to those who have scaled a snow-peak on foot. By their publications and their annual climbs, the Mazamas have done more than any other agency to promote interest in our Northwestern mountains. Mount Hood stands, as I have said, upon the summit of the Cascades, The broad and comparatively level back of the range is here about four thousand feet abovethe sea. Upon thisplane the volcanoerected its cone,chiefly by the ex-pulsion of scoriaerather than by ex-tensive lava flows, toa farther height ofnearly a mile and ahalf. There is noreason to supposethat it ever greatlyexceeded its present Ice Cascade, south side of Mount Hood, near head of White River glacier. altitude, Which gOV- Mount Hood, seen from the top of Barrett Spur. On the left, cascadingdown from the summit, is Coe glacier; on the right, Ladd high cliff separating them is Pulpit 76 THE GUARDIANS OF THE COLUMBIA
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