The Mountaineer 
Volume Four Seattle, Washington Nineteen-Eleven 
NOTES ON ADAMS AND ST. HELENS BOT AL 
Pror. Henry LANDES 
Mt. Adams 
For a number of years I have been an ardent admirer of 
Mt. Adams, but always at lone range. Not until nearly the 
close of the summer that is just past did I have the oppor- 
tunity of a more intimate acquaintance. In this instance dis- 
tance may have lent enchantment, but familiarity certainly 
bred respect and not 
contempt. In coming 
up the Yakima val- 
ley by train, I have 
always sat by the 
vindow, getting ev- 
ery possible glimpse 
of the beautiful and 
symmetrical mouwn- 
tain as it rose grand- 
ly at times above the 
eray and bare hills 
of the foreground. 
Looked at from a 
a thousand vantage 
points to the east- 
ward, the hoary-head- 
ed old voleano is a 
conspicuous land- 
mark on the western 
horizon. It rises head 
and shoulders above 
the labyrinth of 
mountains which 
hedge it in on the 
Photograph by H. V. Abel 
A SECTION OF ADAMS GLACIER 
