48 The Mountaineer 
of the Kautz Glacier, but today its contributions to that ice 
stream are practically nil. Most of its volume used to cascade 
into the cirque-hke valley back of Pyramid Peak. That region 
now is clothed in green and is one of the most picturesque tim- 
ber line gardens the writer has had the pleasure to visit. It is 
easily accessible even now, although there is no beaten trail. 
It seems difficult to realize that the total number of tourists 
who have visited this park thus far probably does not exceed 
a dozen. Among its chief attractions is a perpendicular water- 
fall from the edge of a cliff of columnar basalt two hundred 
feet in height. Until last year that fall was searcely known 
to anyone, and remained nameless. The name Pearl Fall was 
then suggested by one of the park rangers. 
Wilson Glacier. (*!) The next glacier to the west is the one 
marked on the old government maps as Wilson Glacier, named 
for the topographer A. D. Wilson who accompanied 8. F. Em- 
mons on his dash to the summit (*2) a few weeks after Van 
Trump and Hazard had made their first ascent. 
This glacier originates in a profoundly seulptured cirque 
under Peak Success at an elevation of 10,900 feet. It is an 
even four miles long and throughout its upper course averages 
half a mile in width. It forms the eastern member of the 
remarkable group of associated ice streams of which the Ta- 
homa Glacier is the western member. The two great glaciers 
flow parallel to each other, separated in their middle course 
for over a mile by a mere row of isolated rock pinnacles, the 
remnants of an attenuated cleaver which is now partly sub- 
merged and over which the névés coalesce. Farther down the 
two glaciers abruptly part company, and cascade around a 
formidable pinnacled and deeply searred fortress of barren 
rock, to meet again at its base, two thousand feet lower down. 
From Indian Henry’s Hunting Ground one looks out upon this 
singularly magnificent glacial scene. Strange it seemed to the 
writer that the imposing rock mass hemmed in by the ice 
should not long since have been given a name. Glacier Island 
is the appellation he has suggested for it. 
Glacier Island has an extent of nearly a square mile. So 
excessively steep are its ice-carved sides, however, that it is 
(*1)The old names as adopted by the U. S. Geographic Board will be 
used by the writer pending possible reforms in nomenclature, 
(*2)S. F. Emmons, The Volcanoes of the Pacific Coast of the United 
States, Journ. Am. Geograph Soc., Vol. IX, 1877, pp. 45-65. 
