FOREST RECREATION DEPARTMENT 



TRAILS TO THE GREAT OUTDOORS 



ARTHUR H. CARHART, EDITOR 



MAN made cities. There clouds roll up in the early 

 morning banked against serried skylines and in 

 great canyons with sides of granite roar swift 

 moving streams. But the clouds are of smoke and carry 

 smudgy soot. The tumbled skyline is of roofs, towers, 

 smoke stacks and skyscrapers. The great canyons are 

 streets edged with stone office buildings and the streams 

 they carry are of traffic made up of trams, trucks, autos, 

 and great drays. 



There is another land. The clouds come up as in the 

 cities but they are of moisture steaming up from moun- 

 tain sides where 

 waters are 

 turned to mist 

 by the undim- 

 med sun. The 

 skyline is jag- 

 ged and saw- 

 to o t h ed, but 

 that is because 

 of giant moun- 

 tains lifting up- 

 ward toward a 

 clean sky. And 

 the canyons 

 with rock wall 

 carry streams 

 of t u m b 1 ing 

 waters where 

 trout lurk un- 

 der bush or 

 boulder shad- 

 ing pools so 

 deep that even 

 with the clear- 

 est of waters 



the depths cannot be seen. When you feel that you 

 wish to get from under roof, away from the smudge 

 clouds and traffic roar use one of the following trip- 

 prescriptions. They offer much and take you to the land 

 of mountains, streams, lakes and clean air. 



In the lake land of the Superior National Forest one 

 drifts along over the lines traveled by pioneer priest 

 and trapper. The canoe is the only manner of traveling 

 found in many parts of this land. Camps at night are 

 pitched on rocky ledge shaded by tall, yellow-boled 

 Norway pines and as the velvet black of night shadows 

 creep over the lake and thicken under the trees bordering 

 the shore, relieved in their vast expanse only by the inter- 

 mittent flicker of your campfire, night birds' call or a 



V 



OURAY, COLORADO 



Ouray in its setting of cliff-sided mountains is the climax point of any trip which touches this section. Few 

 mountain towns equal and none surpass for scenic grandeur, the setting in which this little city is built. 



great moose bull may send challenge to other moose and 

 the sound of the splash of his travel through the shallows 

 of the lake edge comes to you distinctly through the 

 quiet of the night. 



But should the trip in Colorado claim you your eve- 

 nings will be spent by some rushing mountain stream 

 where winds sing in the pine needles and your days are 

 full of clear sunlight which floods peak and plain with 

 searching rays. There the Mystic Spanish peaks will 

 stand out clearly in the morning of your first day and 

 Sierra Blanca will be with you for miles along the trail 



that same af- 

 ternoon. The 

 canyons of the 

 Rio Grande 

 and the Needle 

 Mountains will 

 be your scenic 

 lodestones call- 

 ing you ever 

 on to new 

 views. And 

 Ouray will en- 

 chant you with 

 i t s waterfalls 

 and deep 

 gorges. 



What need 

 of telling you 

 of the beauties 

 of Lake Ta- 

 hoe ? Set in 

 great forests 

 which cling to 

 the sides of 

 massive peaks 

 this lake charms all visitors. Spicy breaths from great 

 conifers make one draw deep inhalations of the balmy 

 airs and sleep under the stars which hover each night 

 over the mountain lands in the kingdom of peace and 

 quietude. 



No ragged skyline of modern city ever approached in 

 rough outline the pinnacled heights of Mt. Stuart in 

 Washington. Great canyons carrying streams of pure 

 water scar the shoulders of great mountains passed in 

 this trip. Trout leap after flies which venture too near 

 the water surface of placid lakes and over all the spirit 

 of the wilderness and peace hovers. Icicle Creek, 

 its scenic canyon, Stuart Pass and many streams 

 and lakes await the traveler who follows this trail. 



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