. Wild life on the Rockies. e night, was soggy andwet. About a calm that had prevailed all themorning gave way before an easy intermittentwarm breeze from the southeast. At the first cloud appeared in the north,just above Hagues Peak. It was a heavy cumu-lus cloud, but I do not know from what directionit came. It rose high in the air, drifted slowlytoward the west, and then seemed to dissolve. Atany rate, it vanished. About several heavyclouds rose from behind Longs Peak, movingtoward the northwest, rising higher into the skyas they advanced. The wind, at first in fitful dashe
. Wild life on the Rockies. e night, was soggy andwet. About a calm that had prevailed all themorning gave way before an easy intermittentwarm breeze from the southeast. At the first cloud appeared in the north,just above Hagues Peak. It was a heavy cumu-lus cloud, but I do not know from what directionit came. It rose high in the air, drifted slowlytoward the west, and then seemed to dissolve. Atany rate, it vanished. About several heavyclouds rose from behind Longs Peak, movingtoward the northwest, rising higher into the skyas they advanced. The wind, at first in fitful dashes from thesoutheast, began to come more steadily andswiftly after eleven oclock, and was so warmthat the snow softened to a sloppy state. Theair carried a tinge of haze, and conditions wereoppressive. It was labor to breathe. Never, ex-cept one deadly hot July day in New York City,have I felt so overcome with heat and chokingair. Perspiration simply streamed from me. Theseoppressive conditions continued for two hours,— 84. in 32 w o $ T&rfc0er on $t feigns until about one oclock. While they lasted, myeyes pained, ached, and twitched. There was noglare, but only by keeping my eyes closed couldI stand the half-burning pain. Finally I came tosome crags and lay down for a time in the was up eleven thousand five hundred feet andthe time was As I lay on the snow gazingupward, I became aware that there were severalflotillas of clouds of from seven to twenty each,and these were moving toward every point ofthe compass. Each seemed on a different stra-tum of air, and each moved through space a con-siderable distance above or below the clouds moving eastward were the of the lower clouds were those movingwestward. The haze and sunlight gave color toevery cloud, and this color varied from smokyred to orange. At two oclock the haze came in from the eastalmost as dense as a fog-bank, crossed the ridgebefore me, and spread out as dark and forebodingas t
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