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for special outings covering three days. Leaving on either 
Saturday morning or afternoon the return need not be made 
until Monday evening. Owing to the fact that there is little 
snowfall in the city, a popular trip during the winter months 
is to the Cascade Mountains. <A party of fifty-four members 
under the direction of the Local Walk Committee left Se- 
attle, December 31, on the 5:15 Great Northern train. 
This affair was in the nature of a week-end house party 
but perhaps it should more properly be called a “Year End” 
function. To be sure the country house visited was the Scenic 
Hot Springs Hotel, but mine host Mr. P. V. Prosser contrib- 
uted as much to our enjoyment as though he were entertaining 
invited guests. 
On Saturday morning the majority of the company don- 
ned mountain costume and were off for a tramp in the woods 
—and such woods—truly, the home of the Frost King himself! 
Clean, powdery snow lay on the ground; delicate lacey frost 
showed upon the ferns and grasses; the great boughs of cedar 
and fir were heavy with snow. 
Our route led east from the hotel following in a general 
way the bed of the stream. We ascended about a thousand feet 
to where, from a vantage point, we looked at the great hills 
around us and, through the pass, to the higher hills beyond. 
Back at the hotel, hot baths, dry clothing and a brief siesta 
prepared us to enjoy dinner and the dancing afterwards. 
Sunday at 9:30, a start was made and we were otf for the fam- 
ous Cascade Tunnel. At the town of Wellington we paused 
for lunch, then a short walk brought us to the tunnel. Our 
stop was necessarily brief, so we retraced our steps to where 
we had begun our walk on the track. 
We did not descend by our morning’s trail but followed 
the track for another hour, then rounding a sudden curve 
we saw spread out before us a wonderful panorama of white 
hills near and purple ones in the distance. 
By five o’clock we were again at the hotel; all too soon, 
clothes were changed, bags packed, dinner eaten, and a Great 
Northern train was bearing us home from one of the most 
delightful outings the Mountaineers have ever enjoyed. 
The trip taken May 28, 29 and 30 (Memorial Day), was to 
Mount Si and Snoqualmie Falls. Some of the party left 
Leschi Park early Saturday afternoon going by steamer to 
Newport on the east shore of Lake Washington and walking 
