Plate IV. 
RURAL .FREE On July 29, 1912. the Mountaineers were met on the snow 
DELIVERY IN fields near Urania glacier by Park-ranger Longmire with 
THE MOUNTAINS mail from Paradise Park. 
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S. V. Bryant 
hy the park superintendent to meet the party and bring them 
word from the great outside world. With breathless interest 
his progress was watched as step by step he moved down the 
slope. “How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him 
that bringeth good tidings.” Could it have been the altitude 
that set our hearts to beating as the precious mail bag was 
unstrapped and one by one we heard our names as one hears 
inadream? Standing upon the snow, each with his news from 
home, there was no spoken word, the silence wrapped us as a 
cloak, those enhungered were satisfied. 
Breaking camp the following morning, the opportunity 
came for a brief study of the great White glacier, the longest 
in the United States. The sweep of its tremendous body and 
its grip on the mountain made one think of some prehistoric 
reptile. Of especial interest were the balanced rocks and the 
ice needles, scarcely less striking than the seraes on the Win- 
throp. 
Arriving at Glacier Basin a most unique try-out was made 
to Camp Curtis under the leadership of Professor Flett. We 
had volunteered to carry fagots above timber line, in order 
to have a commissary fire when on the main climb; some of us 
were inwardly sorry of our bargains before we were through. 
In fact, those sticks had a fashion of increasing in weight every 
few hundred yards. But who can forget the glimpse of heaven 
