The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St Helens . THE MOUNTAINS 115 Beyond these landmarks, on the west side of the peak, a third considerableglacier feeds South Toutle River. The ravines cut by this stream will repaya visit. (See p. 116.) The slopes not covered with new lava sheets and dikes exhibit, belowthe snow-line, countless bombs hurled up from the crater, with great fieldsof pumice embedding huge angular rocks that tell a story not written onour other peaks. These hard boulders, curiously different from the soft mate-rials in which they lie, were fragments of
The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St Helens . THE MOUNTAINS 115 Beyond these landmarks, on the west side of the peak, a third considerableglacier feeds South Toutle River. The ravines cut by this stream will repaya visit. (See p. 116.) The slopes not covered with new lava sheets and dikes exhibit, belowthe snow-line, countless bombs hurled up from the crater, with great fieldsof pumice embedding huge angular rocks that tell a story not written onour other peaks. These hard boulders, curiously different from the soft mate-rials in which they lie, were fragments of the tertiary platform on which thecone was erected. Torn off by the volcano, as it enlarged its bore, they wereshot out without melting or change in substance. On every hand is proof. Mount St. Helens, seen from Twin Buttes, twenty miles away, across the Cascades. View shows the re-markable cleft or canyon on the southeast face of the peak. that this now peaceful snow-mountain, which resembles nothing else so much asa well-filled saucer of ice cream, had a hot temper in its youth, and has passedsome bad days even since the coming of the white man. The mountain was first climbed in August, 1853, by a party which includedthe same T. J. Dryer who, a year later, took part in the first ascent of MountHood. In a letter to The Oregonian he said the party consisted of , Smith, Drew and myself. They ascended the south side. Theother slopes were long thought too steep to climb, but in 1893 Fred G. Plummer,of Tacoma, now Geographer of the United States Forest Service, ascendedthe north side. His party included Leschi, a Klickitat Indian, probablythe first of his superstitious race to scale a snow-peak. The climbers found 116 THE GUARDIANS OF THE COLUMBIA KALEVIMA
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