32 CRUISINGS IN THE CASCADES 



Lieutenant Slaughter, ef the United States Army, 

 who were then stationed at Steilacoom, Washington 

 Territory. They took pack animals, and with an 

 escort of several men ascended as far as the animals 

 could go. There they left them and continued the 

 climb on foot. They were gone nine days, from the 

 time of leaving their mules until they returned to 

 the animals, and claimed, no doubt justly, to have 

 gone to the top of Liberty Cap, the highest of the 

 three distinct summits that form the triplex corona; 

 the others being known as the Summit and the 

 Dome. The next ascent, so far as known, was made 

 in 1876 by Mr. Hazard Stevens, who gave an account 

 of his experiences in the Atlantic Monthly for No- 

 vember, of that year. In 1882, Messrs. Van Trump 

 and Smith, of San Francisco, made a successful 

 ascent, and in the same year an Austrian tourist 

 who attempted to ascend the mountain, got within 

 three hundred feet of the top, when his progress was 

 arrested by an avalanche, and he came very near 

 losing his life. Mr. L. L. Holden, of Boston, went 

 to within about six hundred feet of the summit in 

 1883, and Mr. J. R. Hitchcock claims to have 

 reached it in 1885. 



From the point gained by the trail above men- 

 tioned, the tourist may look down upon the glaciers 

 of the North Fork of the Puyallup River, 3,000 

 feet below, while on the other hand, the glaciers of 

 the canon of the Carbon may be seen 4,000 feet 

 beneath him. Away to the north, glimmering and 

 glinting under the effulgent rays of the noonday 

 sun, stretches that labyrinth of waters known as 

 Puget Sound 



" Whose breezy waves toss up their silvery spray;" 



