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The Mountaineer 
TRIPLE These peaks show one of the many varieties of mountain architec- 
PEAKS OF ture found in the Dolomites. They are of the type referred to in the 
text as ‘“‘molars of the earth.”’ The soft, pearl gray color does not 
PATERSATTL show except by suggestion on the rocks in the immediate foreground. 
farming in Buck Creek Pass, or Queets Basin, or Indian Henry’s Hunt- 
ing Ground! To a layman the wild flowers seem much hke ours—wild 
roses, poppies, ragged robins, yellow pansies, thistles, lilies, buttercups, 
purple dandelions, maroon clover, Alpen rosen, and higher up the 
edelweis. Of trees there are the familiar pines, firs, tamarack, and 
other evergreens. The rock mountains in the form of domes, buttes, 
or great cathedrals stand closely together and seem to crowd one an- 
other—a veritable city of mountains and that a city of the gods. 
The Dolomites were first described in the eighteenth century by 
the French geologist Dolomieu, after whom they were named. Geo- 
logical speculation has long concerned itself with the producing causes 
of these strange mountains formed of fossilized marine animalculae. 
They are similar in nature to coral reefs and show that at one time 
they were covered by the sea. The vertical walls and general forms 
correspond closely to those of coral reefs. Distinet traces of the coral 
structure can be seen in spite of the disintegrating action which has 
been going on for ages. 
The prevailing color of the rock walls and slopes is a sheen of 
silver gray, soft and rich like some royal robe. Perhaps it could be 
better described as the thick fur of the silver gray fox covering the 
rock mountains and giving them the appearance of being fully clothed, 
except where some bold formation juts forth and where the talus 
mounts up some fissure. The secondary color is a variable ochre mixing 
with the silver gray and shading into buffs and browns. Here and 
there a deep, soft, velvet black shows in streaks and patches. This 
