The Mountaineer L5 
THE MT. ADAMS OUTING OF 1911 
Winona BalLey 
To walk from Mt. Rainier to the Columbia river, one- 
third the distance across the State of Washington, along the 
ereat divide between the eastern and western sections, and to 
seale the second highest peak in the state, was the object the 
Mountaineers had 
set before them for 
the summer of 
1911. To do this 
required twenty- 
one days of travel, 
and sixteen differ- 
ent camps _ scat- 
tered alone a total 
distance of one 
hundred and sixty- 
Photograph by H. A. Fuller 
two miles. 
The party left 
Seattle at seven o'clock on the morning of July 15 by special 
COWLITZ FERRY 
ear for Ashford near the entrance of Rainier National Park. 
A pack train of thirty horses had brought supphes north from 
Glenwood under the direction of Mr. Albertson of the outing 
committee and met us at Longmire Springs. While the walk 
began at Ashford and the first camp was made eleven miles 
from there at Kautz Fork, it was not until all the dunnage had 
been carried across the rushing Nisqually on a foot log, and 
loaded on the waiting horses, that the real trip began. 
Then with a thrill of joy to be once more with the peaks 
and the running waters, we entered upon the trail, the trail 
that led sometimes through deep forest, moss-carpeted, some- 
times along slopes sparsely forested with many a view into 
depths below or across to wooded hillsides; now over high 
ridges, along their sharp edges, or across great snow-fields ; 
often down and down only to chmb again some new height. 
