142 Life in the Open 



steady breeze which continues in Southern Califor- 

 nia all summer. Mount San Jacinto has fine forests 

 and streams and long, level stretches abounding in 

 pines ; regions that are covered with snow in winter and 

 are gardens in summer. Here are numerous camps, 

 reached by good trails and waggon roads inviting 

 to the lover of sport and camp life. The altitude is 

 from five thousand to seven, eight, or even ten thou- 

 sand feet, and the facilitiess are excellent. In the range 

 opposite Los Angeles there are many good trails into 

 the mountains. The Arroyo Seco is particularly avail- 

 able, a deep, well-wooded cafton, which can be followed 

 into the range for twenty or more miles. In the canon 

 is a fine running stream that has been restocked with 

 trout, and which will soon be open to the public. In 

 the San Gabriel Valley, cafions open at short intervals 

 for miles, many being famous for their beauty. Near 

 Pasadena are the Arroyo Seco, Milliard, Las Flores, 

 Eaton, and San Gabriel canons. 



The Mount Lowe elevated road takes one into 

 the upper range to Alpine Tavern. Not far away, at 

 Eaton's Caflon, is the beginning of the Mount Wilson 

 trail, which, by an easy grade, takes the mountaineer up 

 to Mount Wilson, where Martin's camp is stationed 

 in a saddle just below the solar observatory of the 

 Carnegie Institute, under charge of Professor George 

 E. Hale. The pagoda-like observatory looks down 

 into a deep canon, a gulch of profound depths, the 

 cafton of the San Gabriel River, one of the largest in the 



