The Mountaineer 69 
THE ASCENT OF WHITEHORSE 
(ALTITUDE 6820 FEET) 
ya) T 9:30 in the evening before Decoration Day, fifteen Moun- 
A|taineers with their sleeping-bags got off the train at Dar- 
SONG 1 ee Gin eoleador oe Giana Bndess 
. B. Hinman as leader. On May 31st Dr. Guy Ford and 
Will Dolph of Everett and 8S. V. Bryant of Seattle left camp at 5 a. m. 
and reached the summit at noon. The great snow storms of the winter 
had covered up the dangerous rocks, making the ascent quite safe 
though difficult on account of the steepness of the snow slopes. 
Bear Camp, on the ridge above camp, was reached in a little over 
two hours and a view obtained of what was thought to be the summit. 
To get there the explorers had to drop down a little, circle round the 
mountain for a mile, and climb up a steep snow slope through Goat’s 
Pass on to the glacier. Here it was discovered that the peak seen was 
only one of the lower pinnacles and that the summit was over the steep 
snow ridge above. Gaining this ridge they saw that the summit was 
still somewhere higher up at the back of another snow wall. 
Continuing the climb they at last saw some bare rocks above 
which could only be reached by ascending an almost perpendicular 
snow finger. This they succeeded in doing and found themselves in- 
deed on the summit. 
A wonderful view was obtained of Mount Baker, Shuksan, Glacier 
Peak, the Cascades, and the valleys of the Sauk and North Fork of 
the Stilliguamish. An extraordinary sight here at the top was hun- 
dreds of lady bugs on the rocks disporting themselves in the sunshine. 
A flag made from a dish towel tied to a stick of Alaskan cedar, 
carried up from one of the lower ridges for the purpose, was hoisted 
with befitting honors and planted in a cairn of rocks. An account of 
