. Sierra Club bulletin . in cascades and the line of snow the bare granite walls glintedin the sunlight, excepting where crack or crevice gavescant opportunity for a dark evergreen to establish itshome and where some shelf or gentler slope furnishedspace for a thin fringe of larger trees. The floor ofthe valley is timbered. Some places the forest is open,with great yellow pines and balsam firs stretching theircrowns high heavenward and having at their feet a carpetof ferns and flowers. Along the streams are densethickets of young cedars and by the lake a fringe ofaspens. Tru
. Sierra Club bulletin . in cascades and the line of snow the bare granite walls glintedin the sunlight, excepting where crack or crevice gavescant opportunity for a dark evergreen to establish itshome and where some shelf or gentler slope furnishedspace for a thin fringe of larger trees. The floor ofthe valley is timbered. Some places the forest is open,with great yellow pines and balsam firs stretching theircrowns high heavenward and having at their feet a carpetof ferns and flowers. Along the streams are densethickets of young cedars and by the lake a fringe ofaspens. Truly Lake Merced is a glorious place to camp, andthe Sierra Club enjoyed it to the utmost. But they werecamping on schedule time, and the schedule called foronly three days at Merced. There were other scenesto visit. Most of them first returned direct to the maincamp at Tuolumne Meadows. But fifteen of the hardierones, hearing the irresistible call of the mountains, puttheir beds and five days provisions on their backs and. The Mt. Ritter Knapsack Trip, 291 started for Mt. Ritter, twenty miles to the such a twenty miles! There is not a more gloriousstretch on the continent! Now on some pass which isbut a little lower than the peaks on either side and fromwhich in every direction are seen piles on piles of moun-tains, all clothed in white and piercing the skies! Nowin some gorge that seems like a titanic rift in the earthscrust! Now on a glacier-planed slope that might wellbe a giants toboggan-slide! Again taking an anglingcourse up a snow steep or sliding down one so swiftlythat it seemed like flying through space! Then crossingrivers on snow bridges ! The joy of it all calls irresistibly,and we long for the mountains again with a feeling akinto homesickness. After a leisurely breakfast on the morning of June23d we left the Merced camp accompanied by nearlyall the remainder of the Merced party of seventy, whowent along partly to see us off and partly to visit thebasi
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