THIRD CHAPTER 

 RUSSELL GLACIER 



npHE morning of August i8th found us 

 ■■• packing up at Clark's for the fourteen- 

 mile ride up the Skolai River to Skolai Lake. 

 The air was most refreshing, and the hillsides 

 reflected all the variegated shades of green. 

 While we were to pass above timberline on the 

 ride today, yet we started in a spot beautifully 

 clothed in timber. The deciduous foliage was 

 now beginning to receive its autumnal color — 

 about a month ahead of the time in which it is 

 painted in Colorado — but as the pines were 

 greatly in the majority here the yellow spots 

 seemed only as light siftings sprinkled among 

 the green. As the leaf-shedding timber of this 

 country buds out about June ist it will be seen 

 that it remains green only for about two and one- 

 half to three months, or a couple of months less 

 time than in Colorado. 



The crossing of the Frederika River (which 

 issues from the Frederika Glacier and flows into 

 the Skolai some seven miles above Clark's) was 

 accomplished with some difliculty, including a 

 few leg drenchings, but after all the packs were 



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