The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St Helens . 90 THE GUARDIANS OF THE COLUMBIA. Dawn on Mount Adams, telephotographed from Guler, at 4 a. m., showing the three summit peaks, ofwhich the middle one is the highest. The route of the climbers is up the south slope, seen on right. Cloud Cap, and so recent that no trees grow on it. But north of the Colum-bia, one meets evidences of comparatively recent lava sheets in many parts ofthe valley. Some obviously have no connection with Mount Adams; theyflowed out of fissures on the ridges. But these beds of volcanic rock bec
The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St Helens . 90 THE GUARDIANS OF THE COLUMBIA. Dawn on Mount Adams, telephotographed from Guler, at 4 a. m., showing the three summit peaks, ofwhich the middle one is the highest. The route of the climbers is up the south slope, seen on right. Cloud Cap, and so recent that no trees grow on it. But north of the Colum-bia, one meets evidences of comparatively recent lava sheets in many parts ofthe valley. Some obviously have no connection with Mount Adams; theyflowed out of fissures on the ridges. But these beds of volcanic rock becomemore apparent, and are less covered with soil, as we approach the mountain,until, long before timber line is reached, dikes and streams of basalt, as yethardly beginning to disintegrate, are found on all sides of the peak. The form and slope of Mount Adams tell of an age far greater thanMount Hoods, but its story is not, like that of Hood, the legible record ofa simple volcanic cone. It wholly lacks the symmetry of such a pile. Viewed from a distance, itsits very majesticallyupon the summit ofone of th
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