much used for divergence by trail to choice sporting lands and waters 

 on the Sacramento and its affluents. 



Castle Crag is also a popular stopping place, due largely to the 

 fine accommodations and cultivated society of Castle Crag Tavern, 

 the pleasure of these being made to supplement and fully round up 

 those of field and stream. 



Sisson, twenty-one miles farther north, rests on one of the buttresses 

 of Mount Shasta and a favorite point of departure for its ascent. Here 



BI^ACK BEAR. 



Ursus americanus. 



Tibbets Photo. 



and everywhere for more than one hundred encircling miles the scenery 

 is sublime in the highest degree. A dense growth of towering conifers 

 forms a verdant setting for Mount Shasta and its glacial snows. Ice-cold 

 translucent lakes and streams of hurrying waters are to be met in lavish 

 profusion, all all teeming with every variety of gamy salmon and 

 trout; the Rainbow, Cut-throat, McCloud River \_Salmo gairdneri shasta], 



