The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St Helens . Snout of Eliot glacier, its V-shaped ice front heavily covered with morainal debris. 60 THE GUARDIANS OF THE COLUMBIA R-;. Cone of Mount Hood, seen from Cooper Spur onnorthwest side. A popular route to the sum-mit leads along this ridge of volcanic scoriaeand up the steep snow slope above. city. But all mountains are not beginning our journey to the threegreat snow-peaks which we haveviewed from Portland heights, it iswell to define, if we may, the specialcharacter of our Northwestern sometimes hear
The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St Helens . Snout of Eliot glacier, its V-shaped ice front heavily covered with morainal debris. 60 THE GUARDIANS OF THE COLUMBIA R-;. Cone of Mount Hood, seen from Cooper Spur onnorthwest side. A popular route to the sum-mit leads along this ridge of volcanic scoriaeand up the steep snow slope above. city. But all mountains are not beginning our journey to the threegreat snow-peaks which we haveviewed from Portland heights, it iswell to define, if we may, the specialcharacter of our Northwestern sometimes hear the Cascadedistrict praised as the AmericanSwitzerland. Such a comparisondoes injustice alike to our mountainsand to the Alps. As a wild, magnifi-cent sea of ice-covered mountain tops,the Alps have no parallel in a far-reaching system of splendidlofty ranges clothed in the green ofdense forests and surmounted bytowering, isolated summits of snowyvolcanoes, the Cascades are whollywithout their equal in Europe. Thisis the testimony of famous travelersand alpinists, among them Ambassa-dor Bryce, who has written of ourNorthwestern mountain scenery: We have nothing more beautiful in Swi
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