Identifier: bookofnationalpa1920yard (find matches)
Title: The book of the national parks
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Yard, Robert Sterling, 1861-1945
Subjects: National parks and reserves
Publisher: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ail, is an experiencenever to be forgotten. One passes the snouts of ascore of glaciers, each producing its river, and sees themountain from every angle, besides having a continu-ous panorama of the surrounding country, includingMount Adams, Mount St. Helens, Mount Baker,Tacoma, Seattle, Mount Olympus, the Pacific Ocean,and the Cascades from the Columbia to the interna-tional line. Shorter excursions to other beautiful park-lands offer a wide variety of pleasure. Indian HenrysHunting Ground, Van Trump Park, Summerland, andothers provide charm and beauty as well as fascinatingchanges in the aspect of the great mountain. Of course the ascent of the mountain is the ulti-mate objective of the climber, but few, comparatively,will attempt it. It is a feat in endurance which notmany are physically fit to undertake, while to the un-fit there are no rewards. There is comparatively littlerock-climbing, but what there is will try wind and mus-cle. Most of the way is tramping up long snow-covered
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MOUNT RAINIER, ICY OCTOPUS 167 and ice-covered slopes, with little rest from the startat midnight to the return, if all goes well, before thefollowing sundown. Face and hands are painted toprotect against sunburn, and colored glasses avertsnow-blindness. Success is so largely a matter ofphysical condition that many ambitious tourists areadvised to practise awhile on the Tatoosh Range be-fore attempting the trip. Do you see Pinnacle Peak up there? they askyou. If you can make that you can make Rainier.Better try it first. And many who try Pinnacle Peak do not make it. As with every very lofty mountain the view fromthe summit depends upon the conditions of the mo-ment. Often Rainiers summit is lost in mists andclouds, and there is no view. Very often on the clear-est day clouds continually gather and dissipate; oneis lucky in the particular time he is on top. Fre-quently there are partial views. Occasionally everycondition favors, and then indeed the reward is great.S. F. Emmons, who ma

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