THE MOUNTAINEER 



Vol. I Seattle, Washington, November, 19O8 No. 4 



CONTENTS 



PAGE 



The Mountains John Muir Frontispiece 



With the Mountaineers on Mount Baker 



Lulie Nettleton 87 



Mount Baker Alice Harriman (Poem) 96 



The Mountaineers' First Ascent of Mount Baker 



Asahel Curtis 97 



First Aid in the Mountains 



Dr. C. S. Eaton lOO 



A Mountain Experience • • .. 



\ E. H. Wells 103 



The Seed Plants, Ferns, and Fern Alhes, of the Higher 



Regions of the Olympic Mountains 



/. B.Flett 108 



Thallophytes and Bryophytes from the Olympic Moun- 

 tains T. C. Frye 117 



Third Annual Outing of the Mountaineers 138 



Local Walks, 1 908 140 



Altitudes of Mountain Peaks and Passes of Washington.. 141 

 Additions to The Bibliography of The Mountains of Wash- 

 ington Alida J. Bigelow 147 



ILLUSTRATIONS 



Mount Baker from Park Creek Plate 25 



Climbing a Steep Ice Slope, Boulder Glacier .. Plate 26 



Mount Baker from The Mountaineers Temporary 



Camp, 19O8 Plate 27 



Snow Cornice to Southeast of Summit of Mount 



Baker Plate 28 



Xerophyllum tenax, commonly called Indian Basket 



grass Plate 29 



Cassiope mertensiana, the white heather common to 



the Cascades and Olympics Plate 30 



Campanula piperi, a rare harebell Plate 31 



Pulsatilla occidentale, the common mountain anem- 

 one Plate 32 



Phlox diffusa, mountain phlox growing in high alti- 

 tudes-. Plate 33 



Mount Rainier from Crater Lake Plate 34 



Faye Peak, in Spring Park, near Mount Rainier Plate 35 



Address all communications to 



JOHN R. BEST, Jr., Bresiebton, Wash. 



