STEEP TRAILS 



Hood has been made for several centuries, as 

 is shown by the amount of glacial denudation 

 it has suffered. Its summit has been ground 

 to a point, which gives it a rather thin, pinched 

 appearance. It has a wide-flowing base, how- 

 ever, and is fairly well proportioned. Though 

 it is eleven thousand feet high, it is too far off 

 to make much show under ordinary condi- 

 tions in so extensive a landscape. Through a 

 great part of the summer it is invisible on 

 account of smoke poured into the sky from 

 burning woods, logging-camps, mills, etc., and 

 in winter for weeks at a time, or even months, 

 it is in the clouds. Only in spring and early 

 summer and in what there may chance to be 

 of bright weather in winter is it or any of its 

 companions at all clear or telling. From the 

 Cascades on the Columbia it may be seen at 

 a distance of twenty miles or thereabouts, or 

 from other points up and down the river, and 

 with the magnificent foreground it is very im- 

 pressive. It gives the supreme touch of gran- 

 deur to all the main Columbia views, rising 

 at every turn, solitary, majestic, awe-inspiring, 

 the ruling spirit of the landscape. But, like 

 mountains everywhere, it varies greatly hi 

 impressiveness and apparent height at differ- 

 ent tunes and seasons, not alone from dif- 

 ferences as to the dimness or transparency of 



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