. The Pacific tourist . oes are aboutsix inches wide,turned up infront like therunner of askate, and wax-ed to makethem slip easi-ly o v e r thesnow. Near themiddle is aleather thatlaces over theinstep (a skele-ton half-shoe),and out ofwhich the footwill slip in caseof a fall or acci-dent. A long poleis carried likea rope-dancersto preserve abalance, and tostraddle and situpon for abrake, whendescending ahill. They areessential tosafety in thesestorms. As I watched the falling snow, nothing couldexceed the beauty. As it curled and shotthrough the air, the mountains were shut outwith a gauzy ve
. The Pacific tourist . oes are aboutsix inches wide,turned up infront like therunner of askate, and wax-ed to makethem slip easi-ly o v e r thesnow. Near themiddle is aleather thatlaces over theinstep (a skele-ton half-shoe),and out ofwhich the footwill slip in caseof a fall or acci-dent. A long poleis carried likea rope-dancersto preserve abalance, and tostraddle and situpon for abrake, whendescending ahill. They areessential tosafety in thesestorms. As I watched the falling snow, nothing couldexceed the beauty. As it curled and shotthrough the air, the mountains were shut outwith a gauzy veil and darker mists. Now andthen I caught a glimpse of a clump of pines onthe mountain side, indistinct and gray in shadow,and as the fitful snow favored the straining eye,the long white boughs seemed bending as if con-scious of the enormous weight that threatenedevery living thing. When the clouds broke suddenly away, a floodof golden light leaped from hill to hill. The tallpines, partly green, but now like pyramids of. MARYS LAKE, M1KKOH VIEW. snow, lift their heads above the mountain in less than fifteen minutes after the firstsight of the sun, a long stratum of dark cloudcame down the mountain, and the snow fallsthicker and faster than ever. Its hard crystalswere driven so furiously as to make ones cheeksburn, and give exquisite torture to the looked upon the rapid river, and around itssnow-capped rocks the water played in foamingcascades. The enormous snow-plows at length grappledwith this monster of the elements. From east and west came reports of ava-lanches, snow sheds down, trains wrecked andsnow-bound, and soon the telegraph refused to do its ponder-ous engineswere thrownfrom the railsin the streets,before our eyes,by the hardcrystals whichthey crushedinto gkicier-likeice. With fiveof them behindthe largestsnow-plow o nthe road, westarted towardthe snow flewand eventhe groundtrembled, andevery piece ofthe short snowsIhmIs was
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