What to see in America . ntwo miles high. Themountains are span-gled or completelycovered w^ith snowduring the greaterpart of the first settlerwithin the limits ofwhat is now the parkwas Joel Estes, who came in 1860, and from whom the broad valley gateway hasbeen named. He built a cabin on Willow Creek in the foot-hills. For many years after that the region was visited byhunters who followed the deer and elk and trapped thebeaver in the valleys, and who shot the bear and mountainsheep in the fastnesses of the heights. The glacial epoch has not closed in the higher parts of thepark. Th
What to see in America . ntwo miles high. Themountains are span-gled or completelycovered w^ith snowduring the greaterpart of the first settlerwithin the limits ofwhat is now the parkwas Joel Estes, who came in 1860, and from whom the broad valley gateway hasbeen named. He built a cabin on Willow Creek in the foot-hills. For many years after that the region was visited byhunters who followed the deer and elk and trapped thebeaver in the valleys, and who shot the bear and mountainsheep in the fastnesses of the heights. The glacial epoch has not closed in the higher parts of thepark. The one condition necessary for the formation of aglacier is an excess of accumulated snow over waste. In aregion where there is a heavy snowfall during the winter thesnowfields endure throughout the summer at much lower — altitudes thanwhen the snow-fall is light. OnM t. Rainier,where the annualsnowfall exceedstwenty feet, theglacial ice ex-tends downwithin 4000 feet Forest Fire on South Bowlder Creek 01 SCa levci , DUt. 410 What to See in America
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