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human foot had ever been there before, it was an arduous cHmb — requiring 

 over three hours of steady hard work to reach the summit. The party con- 

 sisted of Herve Friend and wife, Dr. H. A. Reid, Jason Brown, and a young 

 man named Mahlon. They found the monument or cairn built by the men 

 of the U. S. Geodetic survey ; also the tin canister or safe for containing 

 their official records, but the most important of these were missing — had 

 been stolen away. When all had fairly reached the top, and were full of the 

 sublimity and wonder of it, Jason Brown suddenly spoke: "Now I'm 

 going to kiss the first woman who ever stood on the highest point of the 

 San Gabriel mountains." And with that the grizzled old man put his bare 

 bronzed arm around Mrs. Friend and kissed her, as gracefully as a French 

 dancing master. She was taken by surprise, and stood in a sort of dazed 

 amazement, blushing all over, but offered no resistance or resentment. A 

 brisk cold shower of rain came on while the party were eating their lunch ; 

 and being wholly unprepared for such a phenomenon in Pasadenaland in the 

 month of August, they could only tip their heads to the wind and take the 

 cold wetting as it came. But fortunately it soon passed over. The descent 

 to camp where their burros had been left occupied two hours of careful, 

 cautious and sometimes perilous clamber work.* 



Mount Markham. — This is a peak somewhat higher than Mount 

 lyowe but not visible from Pasadena. It is connected with the main body of 

 Mount lyOwe by a narrow neck or ridge perhaps a hundred rods long, and 

 also with San Gabriel peak by a similar but much shorter ridge — and these 

 ridges are the divide whose east-slope waters flow into Eaton canyon and 

 thence to the San Gabriel river, while their west-slope waters flow into the 

 Arroyo Seco and thence to the lyos Angeles river. It was named in honor 

 of H. H. Markham, who first as congressman and then as governor, had 

 won the highest public distinction of any Pasadenian. 



Square-Top [also called Table mountain] is a lesser peak between San 

 Gabriel and Strawberry peaks ; and takes its name from the striking and 

 peculiar flatness of its summit. It also is not visible from Pasadena. 



GiDDiNGS Peak. — ^June i8, 1886, the Valley Union said : " Mr. E. W. 

 Giddings [he was assisted by Calvin Hartwell. — Ed.] has planted an im- 

 mense white flag on a mountain summit next east of Millard canyon which 

 is hereafter to be known as Giddings Peak, in honor of the famous old anti- 

 slavery statesman of Ohio." The point referred to does not show as a 

 distinct peak from Pasadena, but is the westernmost mouticle of the Echo 

 wall-crest that forms the northwesterly white-rock wall of Echo ampitheater. 



*After this chapter was all ready for the press, I learned that a statement was published in the 

 Weekly Star of August 5, 18<tl, sipned by C. P. Switzer, to the effect that Mrs. J. D. Hooker of Los Angeles, 

 and her sister Miss Bessie Putnam of San P'raucisco, made the climb from " Lucky camp," to the summit 

 of Commodore [San Gabriel] peak on July 21, 1H91, with Will H. Hibbie as guide ; and that no woman 

 had ever ascended that peak before. He also said that Mrs. Hooker had five years previously made the 

 climb from his camp to the top of Mount Disappointment, being the first woman who ever set foot on its 

 lofty crest. This was before any burro trail had been made there. 



