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The Mountaimeer le 
MOUNT ADAMS OUTING OF 1911. 
L. A. NELSON. 
The annual summer outing of the Mountaineers for 1911, will be 
to Mount Adams and the Goat Rocks. A general outline of the route 
can only be given at this time. 
The party will travel from Seattle to White Salmon by train, the 
last sixty-five miles being along the Columbia River. Leaving the 
railroad here the route is up the White Salmon valley to Trout Lake 
then over the Morrison Creek trail to a camp at timberline on the 
south side of Mount Adams. 
After a few try-outs in visiting the surrounding country the climb 
of the mountain will be made. Leaving this camp the trail around 
the western side of the mountain will be followed to the north side, 
then the party will go north along the summit of the Cascade range 
to the Goat Rocks. <A short detour will be made around this rugged 
mass. We will then go north to Cowlitz Pass, down the Cowlitz River 
to Skate Creek and up this stream through Skate Pass to Longmire 
Springs, Mount Rainier National Park. The last part of the journey 
will be over the government road to Ashford and to Seattle by train. 
The scenery is some of the grandest to be found in the West. The 
ever-changing scenes along the Columbia with Mount Hood always in 
view, brings to mind the lines of the Bugle Song: 
“The splendor falls on castle walls, 
And snowy summits old in story.” 
The falls of the White Salmon, with the river above and below, 
rushing and leaping between canyon walls, the forests of pine, the 
road along the rim of the canyon, all are interesting. Even more 
wonderful are the mountain parks, the alpine flowers and trees, the 
ragged peaks, glaciers with their crevasses, ice falls, and seracs, and 
majestic Mount Adams towering above. 
From Mount Adams to the Goat Rocks the country is dotted with 
many beautiful lakes, from Lakeview Mountain over fifty can be seen. 
The Goat Rocks form one of the most rugged peaks in the Cascades 
and over their precipitous walls numerous waterfalls plunge. 
Cowlitz Pass is a great mountain park studded with jewel-like lakes. 
Beyond is the Cowlitz valley with its deep canyons, Skate Pass, the 
Nisqually River with Mount Rainier in full view, only a few miles 
away. 
