6 The Mountaineer 



vised building a trail through the Sluiskin Mountains, 

 but this would require a summer's work and would 

 cost |1,500. The only other alternative was a fifty-mile 

 march up the White River Valley to Glacier Basin. 

 To settle this problem the Outing Committee made the 

 round trip from Fairfax to the camp ground in Mo- 

 raine Park and returned through the Sluiskins on July 

 4, and determined to build a trail over the shifting 

 moraine of the Carbon. This work was done for the 

 club under the supervision of Park Ranger T. E. O'Far- 

 rell and practically finished in a week. 



When every plan seemed to be working at its best, a 

 feeling that there must be something wrong somewhere 

 caused Mr. Nelson to go to Fairfax to investigate. He 

 found that our worst fears did not do the situation 

 justice. Spray Park was still deep in snow, and it was 

 not possible to get horses farther than Crater Lake. 

 In getting our first supplies to the lake Henry Loss 

 had killed one horse and crippled others. The deep 

 snows prevented repairing the trail beyond the lake in 

 time for the party, and Nelson advised that we aban- 

 don the Spray Park part of the outing, or postpone it 

 until the last. 



To do this meant the entire rearrangement of the 

 supplies of the outing, particularly the commissary 

 outfit, and will explain to those who were with us the 

 first week why there was a shortage of table utensils 

 and a scant dinner the first night in camp. 



The party left Seattle on the morning of July 17, 

 reached Fairfax at 11 a. m., and marched to the first 

 camp eleven miles out on the Carbon River trail. In 

 a drizzling rain camp was made, and tents erected to 

 protect everyone, and in spite of the discomforts of wet 

 garments it was a happy party that gathered around 

 the first campfire. 



The following morning a number of the men were 

 detailed to go in advance and complete the trail across 



