The Mountaineer 
in the soft morning light, she will remain to all of us one 
of the sweetest memories of our journey. 
Try-out trips were necessary to give members practice 
with the alpenstock and to gain confidence for the final 
clinb. The topography was such as to afford ample opportun 
ity for experience on slopes, those of grass and heather prov- 
Photo P. M. McGrege 
A PTARMAGIN 
ing as troublesome at first as snow. One fine trip was to the 
crest of Sunset Hill from whose summit a magnificent pano- 
rama greeted our eves, and our old friend Mount Baker glist 
ened to the north of us. Another took us to the summit of 
Liberty Cap (6,800 feet) and two others were to the rocky 
ridge beyond; on two other trips we visited a rocky ridge 
southeast of camp where we explored unnamed peaks vary- 
ing in altitude from 6,000 feet to 7,800 feet. The long tramp 
in hardened the muscles and the try-out trips had given con- 
fidence; thus, when, on August 3rd, the party left camp for 
the great ascent not one of the fifty-seven but was physically 
fit for a very strenuous trip. 
A committee, consisting of L. A. Nelson, P. M. McGregor 
and Melvin Krows, had left camp July 31st to plan the route 
for the ascent. They returned August Ist, bringing with them 
J. A. Blosser, of Snohomish, Washington, whom they had 
found on the mountain looking for our camp. They reported 
a strenuous trip to timber line, but an easy ascent of the 
