In Camp at Glacier Bay 



off from the trunk and independent. The highest 

 peak to the eastward has an elevation of about five 

 thousand feet or a little less. I also had glorious 

 views of the Fairweather Range, La Perouse, Crillon, 

 Lituya, and Fairweather. Mt. Fairweather is the 

 most beautiful of all the giants that stand guard 

 about Glacier Bay. When the sun is shining on it 

 from the east or south its magnificent glaciers and 

 colors are brought out in most telling display. In the 

 late afternoon its features become less distinct. The 

 atmosphere seems pale and hazy, though around to the 

 north and northeastward of Fairweather innumerable 

 white peaks are displayed, the highest fountain-heads 

 of the Muir Glacier crowded together in bewildering 

 array, most exciting and inviting to the mountaineer. 

 Altogether I have had a delightful day, a truly glori- 

 ous celebration of the fourth. 



July 6, I sailed three or four miles down the east 

 coast of the inlet with the Reid party's cook, who is 

 supposed to be an experienced camper and prospector, 

 and landed at a stratified moraine-bank. It was here 

 that I camped in 1880, a point at that time less than 

 half a mile from the front of the glacier, now one and a 

 half miles. I found my Indian's old camp made just 

 ten years ago, and Professor Wright's of five years ago. 

 Their alder-bough beds and fireplace were still marked 

 and but little decayed. I found thirty-three species 

 of plants in flower, not counting willows — a showy 

 garden on the shore only a few feet above high 

 tide, watered by a fine stream. Lutkea, hedysarum, 



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