Travels in Alaska 



the bank out of the swiftest part of the current. In 

 the rapids a tow line was taken ashore, only one of the 

 crew remaining aboard to steer. The trip took a day 

 unless a favoring wind was blowing, which often hap- 

 pened. 



Next morning I set out from Glenora to climb 

 Glenora Peak for the general view of the great Coast 

 Range that I failed to obtain on my first ascent on 

 account of the accident that befell Mr. Young when 

 we were within a minute or two of the top. It is hard 

 to fail in reaching a mountain-top that one starts for, 

 let the cause be what it may. This time I had no 

 companion to care for, but the sky was threatening. 

 I was assured by the local weather-prophets that the 

 day would be rainy or snowy because the peaks in 

 sight were muffled in clouds that seemed to be getting 

 ready for work. I determined to go ahead, however, 

 for storms of any kind are well worth while, and if 

 driven back I could wait and try again. 



With crackers in my pocket and a light rubber coat 

 that a kind Hebrew passenger on the steamer Ger- 

 trude loaned me, I was ready for anything that might 

 offer, my hopes for the grand view rising and falling as 

 the clouds rose and fell. Anxiously I watched them 

 as they trailed their draggled skirts across the glaciers 

 and fountain peaks as if thoughtfully looking for the 

 places where they could do the most good. From Glen- 

 ora there is first a terrace two hundred feet above the 

 river covered mostly with bushes, yellow apocynum 

 on the open spaces, together with carpets of dwarf 

 manzanita, bunch-grass, and a few of the composite, 



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