6 The Mountaineer 
west and north. Its majestic pile, with its seeming ambition 
of forming a connecting link between the earth and the sky, 
is at once a source of awe and inspiration to the mountaineer. 
On a clear day the view from the top of Adams is well 
worth the climb. In asecendine the mountain from the south 
it is not long before Mt. Hood appears as a very near neigh- 
bor. In a little while, when the beautiful dome of Hood ap- 
pears at its best, one is dehehted to find that in the same 
view Jefferson has come prominently into the range of vision, 
to the left of Hood and 50 miles beyond. <A little later, when 
the deeper haze of the lowlands is left behind, and more dis- 
tant views become possible, the Sisters are seen just to the left 
ol Jefferson and nearly 40 miles farther south. From the sum- 
mit of Adains the cone of St. Helens appears to fine advantage 
in its symmetry and regularity. It seems near enough to make 
one feel that he could almost hit it with a snow-ball. Some 
of the details of its small glaciers and its late lava flows ean 
be made out with the aid of a field glass. Rainier, heavier 
snow-capped than the others, is conspicuous 50 miles away to- 
ward the northern horizon. Between Adams and Rainier the 
maze of mountains is so complex that the eye tires in its effort 
to untangle the multitude of peaks and ridges and decipher the 
leading drainage iines. Looking eastward the ridges and low 
divides melt away in a receding plain that is finally lost in 
the haze of the far distant horizon. 
Although somewhat removed from the main arteries of 
travel, Adams vet lies fairly convenient for anyone who would 
make its close acquaintance. It is occasionally visited by 
parties with pack horses coming from the northward, or more 
often from the Yakima valley which hes to the eastward. <A 
trail which has just been completed makes it accessible from 
the westward, up the Lewis River from the neighborhood of 
St. Helens. The most common direction of approach is from the 
south, following the White Salmon valley for its entire length. 
The town of White Salmon, where the stream of that name 
joins the Columbia, is easily accessible by either boat or train. 
A good road, traversed daily by stages and automobiles, extends 
for 29 miles up the White Salmon valley to Guler. At Guler 
there is a good hotel where one may stop while exploring the 
lava cones and the country about the foot of the mountain, or 
while making his plans for the mountain ascent. From Guler 
