The Mountaineer 2, 
camp. Our judgment proved good for it was a very delight- 
ful camp. 
We arrived at 3 p. m., having come ten and one-half miles, 
our elevation being 6,150 ft. The country between the Choco- 
late River and temporary camp is cut by a great many ravines 
and canyons so a direct route can not be followed. 
After choosing a camp we left our packs and climbed to 
the top of a pumice ridge to the south and about 1,000 ft. 
above camp. Here we could easily choose the route of as- 
cent. Two presented themselves—one the route of the Rusk 
and Cool ascent, and another along the ridge due east of 
the summit. We chose the latter as the most direct although 
the steeper of the two. 
We saw three goats coming down the pumice ridge and 
watched them a long time. 
We coasted most of the distance back to camp and soon 
had dinner ready. While eating we heard a noise in the 
valley below us and looking through the trees saw a_ goat 
calmly making his way towards camp evidently to call upon 
us. It came to within forty feet of camp and on seeing us, 
suddenly remembered an engagement it had down the valley. 
We saw three more goats across the valley from camp. 
As a signal to the main party in camp at Buck Creek Pass, 
that all was well, a fire was built and green boughs piled on 
to make a big smoke. Just as the fire was about out we 
heard a call from the summit of the pumice ridge and thought 
it was a goat, but upon looking, saw a man. With a “Get 
something to eat ready.” I started to meet him. After climb- 
ing 800 feet above camp I found J. A. Blosser, of Snohomish, 
who had come in by way of Darrington, and had left the head 
of the Whitechuck River that morning. I took his pack and 
soon we were in camp, where he was given a square meal of 
soup, ete. (mostly soup). 
Next morning, August 1st, we three left camp at 4:45 
a. m. for the summit, with clouds all about us. On reaching 
the pumice ridge, however, the upper clouds drifted away and 
we could see all the higher peaks. We followed this ridge 
to near where it terminated in a cleaver dividing two ice 
fields, then we swung north, up and across the Cool Glacier 
to the ridge running east from the summit. The slope was 
a bit steeper than one cares to go straight up, but a_ few 
