Outing . downto build a palatial home on Capitol Hilland finish his days at the Denver Club, swapping stories with his fellows. Mean-while his son goes to Harvard, drives amotor car along the very road where hisfather perhaps packed a prospectors out-fit on his back, plays polo or rides to ameet to chase coyotes, and finds timebesides to practice law or promote might be called the roof ofthe continent, the watershed whose greatdivide sends a hundred rivers down itseaves into the Atlantic and as many intothe Pacific. More than forty peaks ofthe Rockies in this State rise higher t
Outing . downto build a palatial home on Capitol Hilland finish his days at the Denver Club, swapping stories with his fellows. Mean-while his son goes to Harvard, drives amotor car along the very road where hisfather perhaps packed a prospectors out-fit on his back, plays polo or rides to ameet to chase coyotes, and finds timebesides to practice law or promote might be called the roof ofthe continent, the watershed whose greatdivide sends a hundred rivers down itseaves into the Atlantic and as many intothe Pacific. More than forty peaks ofthe Rockies in this State rise higher than 205 2o6 THE OUTING MAGAZINE 14,000 feet, the best known and one ofthe least impressive of which is PikesPeak, the first to strike the eye as onecomes westward from the plains. This region of dry, untempered atmos-phere seems to defy distance. One mayride all day with a mountain landmarkfor a guide and find it at nightfall noperceptible foot nearer, though it haschanged from blue to pink in the sunset. SAILING NEARLY TWO MILES ABOVESEA LEVEL. glow and later to a velvet violet in theevening dusk and again to a purple hazethat in the night blurs softly all Denver one may see a two-hundred-mile stretch of continuous mountain,from Pikes, which is eighty miles tothe south, to great Longs, not far fromthe Wyoming line. The Rocky Mountain plateau lacksmany of the beauties familiar to thosewho come from the East. One missesthe verdure, the delicate softness andcoloring of Indian summer. There arecomparatively few fine cloud effects anda very definite lack of perspective. Thesedeficiencies are inevitable complements ofan atmosphere so peculiarly dry and rare- fied, but nature has her way of atoningby unexpected sweeps of light and shadowon the plains, by wonderful sunrises onkeen, crisp mornings when the snowymountains glow with a translucent pink,by exquisite hours of dusk touched to amystical light that shimmers on the ser-rated range. It was not meant in the divine schem
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