AND ITS MESSAGE 



shine, every cool shadow becomes 

 important and noteworthy. And 

 so, as day by day you surrender 

 yourself to the mountain trail and 

 follow gladly where it leads, there 

 comes a feeling of peculiar inti- 

 macy and companionship with it. 

 My experiences on the moun- 

 tain trail have been, for the most 

 part, in connection with the annual 

 outings of the Sierra Club. Our 

 outing parties number from one 

 hundred twenty to two hundred 

 people and we spend a month each 

 summer in some remote and beau- 

 tiful part of the Sierra Nevada. 

 All supplies are carried by our 

 hired pack train of mules and 

 horses over mountain trails, for we 

 go into that region where the roads 

 "run out and stop." At night we 

 sleep in the open air in sleeping 

 bags on piles of fir boughs or pine 

 needles or even, after a hard day's 

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