Sunset . t another. But if Inever become a tcn-peaker (tenpeaks above 10,000 feet), I shall al-ways continue to climb the littleones and make attempts on thebig ones. Suppose, however, weleave to the expert (or tothe end of our season at !)Rainier, the God Mountain,with her varicolored subalpincgarden flowering between greenforests below and glisteningwhite glaciers above; beckoningWhitney, from whose summit (the countrys loftiest height)one may descend between daybreak and sunset to DeathValleys bottom (the countrys nethermost depth) ; queenlyShasta, smiling benignly down the valley; Ba
Sunset . t another. But if Inever become a tcn-peaker (tenpeaks above 10,000 feet), I shall al-ways continue to climb the littleones and make attempts on thebig ones. Suppose, however, weleave to the expert (or tothe end of our season at !)Rainier, the God Mountain,with her varicolored subalpincgarden flowering between greenforests below and glisteningwhite glaciers above; beckoningWhitney, from whose summit (the countrys loftiest height)one may descend between daybreak and sunset to DeathValleys bottom (the countrys nethermost depth) ; queenlyShasta, smiling benignly down the valley; Baker, northern-most of the American Cascades, with her reminiscences ofmany a wild dash to her summit in those daring MountBaker Marathons of 1911-13, when mountaineers wereadvertisers; and that human goats paradise, Jefl^erson, over-looking Warm Springs Indian Reservation—reckoned bymany the hardest climb in Oregon. Beyond these famous,somewhat formidable mountains, the coast states boast many JUNE 1935. Sequoia National Park, there standsAlta Peak, offering superb views andno serious obstacles to the your car and pitch your tent nearCrescent Meadow (6,950 feet), twomiles from Giant Forest, the park head-quarters ; or pound the trail ninemiles to camp in Alta Meadow(9,000 feet), whence the allur-ing summit is but the traditionalstones throw (a stones throw,in this case, being a mile distantand 2,000 odd feet up.) Ananeroid barometer, carried tothe apex of Alta, would read11,211 feet above the sea —which makes Alta a mere pigmynext to Grandfather Whitney(who rears his snowy head only20 miles away as the crowflies), but which, nevertheless,rewards the surmounter of Altawith an unrivaled panoramicview of the park area. Climb de luxe is what theycall Lassen Peak (10,577 feet)in tough mountaineering 1,990 feet on a goodtrail (departing from the parkroad) and you stand on the crater rimof the nearest approach to an active «w^^^ worthy of the name and
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