The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St Helens . in fine views of the near-by glaciers and a wide outlook overthe surrounding country. A tramp of three miles from the Inn covers the easiergrade, and brings the climber to a height of eight thousand feet. A narrow,snow-covered chine now offers a windy path to the foot of the steeper slope(See p. 60). The climb ends with the conquest of a half-mile of vertical eleva-tion over a grade that tests muscle, wind and nerve. This is real mountaineer-ing, and as the novice clutches the rocks, or carefully follows in the steps
The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St Helens . in fine views of the near-by glaciers and a wide outlook overthe surrounding country. A tramp of three miles from the Inn covers the easiergrade, and brings the climber to a height of eight thousand feet. A narrow,snow-covered chine now offers a windy path to the foot of the steeper slope(See p. 60). The climb ends with the conquest of a half-mile of vertical eleva-tion over a grade that tests muscle, wind and nerve. This is real mountaineer-ing, and as the novice clutches the rocks, or carefully follows in the steps cut by the guide, he re-calls a command welladapted to such try-ing situations:Prove all things;hold fast that whichis good. But thedanger is more ap-parent than real, andthe goal is soonreached. The south-sideroute, followed bythe Barlow party of1854, was longD * XT E .J- .. n .^ J .„-,•..<..• .- -J deemed the only Prof. Harry Fielding Reid and party exploring Zigzag glacier, south side _ _ ^ of Mount Hood. Illumination Rock is seen beyond. practicable trail tO. 80 THE GUARDIANS OF THE COLUMBIA the summit. Many years later, William A. Langille discovered the route upfrom Cooper Spur. The only accident charged against this path befell a strangerwho was killed in trying to climb it without a guide. Its steepness is, indeed,an advantage, as it requires less time than the other route. Climbers frequentlyascend by one trail and descend by the other, thus making the trip betweenCloud Cap Inn and Government Camp in a day. The actual summit of Mount Hood is a narrow but fairly level platform,a quarter of a mile long, which is quickly seen to be part of the rim of the ancientcrater. Below it, on the north, are the heads of three glaciers already men-tioned, the Eliot, Coe and Ladd; and looking down upon them, the climberperceives that here the mountain has been so much cut away as to be less aslope than a seriesof precipices, withvery limited bencheswhich serve as gather-ing g
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