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the glade except towards the mountain, where snow banks 
lined the basin rim, a site that rivalled Buck Creek Pass, the 
permanent camp of the Glacier Peak outing. 
The afternoon was spent in preparations for the long 
anticipated circus, the stupendous spectacle that formed the 
climax of the fun of camp-fire programs. The evening enter- 
tainments of this outing were somewhat curtailed because of 
leneth of mareh and lack of time in camp, but who that heard 
them will ever forget the tales that were told, the instructive 
Photograph by Fred Q. Gorton 
CAMP IN THE GHOST FOREST 
talks on photographs and stars, the history, the legends, and 
the verses of our president, the orchestra of our musical 
brethren, the sones that shortened the miles or relieved a mo- 
ment of perplexity? Every Sunday there was a beautiful, rest- 
ful service of worship with pulpit and sounding board of alpine 
firs and pews on grassy slopes. 
It was decided when the climb was made to break camp 
at Killing Creek, send all supphes and dunnage by pack train 
around the western flank with any who did not care to go with 
the climbers over the mountain. On Monday, July 31, the 
rising call sounded before daylight and with hasty packing of 
dunnage and still hastier breakfast the whistle blew and fifty- 
