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point and to return to the equally appropriate and more conveniently 

 situated Nisqually. 



A point was selected upon the lateral moraine of Nisqually Glacier, 

 which gave a superb panorama of the mountain for the background 

 and a foreground showing the moraine and snow fields adjacent to the 

 glacier itself. Then the real work of the expedition commenced. The 

 party immediately moved from Paradise Inn to a camp, shown in 

 figure 44, established on the moraine of the glacier at the very edge of 

 the ice sheet. In order to reach this point, a considerable amount of 

 trail had to be constructed and all the material and baggage needed to 

 carry on the work of the expedition had to be carried out on pack 

 horses to the camp site. Once established, this camp served as head- 

 quarters from which many trips were made in different directions for 

 the purpose of taking photographs and of studying the various phases 

 of glacial work. 



Mr. Peter, the artist, immediately started on the sketch for the 

 background, and it was soon found that the most appropriate time for 

 painting this panorama was in the early morning, from six to eight 

 o'clock. After that hour, the shadows had so changed on the moun- 

 tain and the glacier, as to entirely alter the whole aspect of the scene. 

 During the time that the sketching was in progress, a second trip was 

 made by the other members of the party to the Paradise Glacier, where 

 photographs of an ice cave were taken, also many trips were made out 

 onto the Nisqually Glacier, lying immediately in front of the camp. All 

 of the photographic work was greatly hindered by the smoke from 

 forest fires, which, throughout a great part of the day, obscured the 

 landscape. 



Mr. A. S. Teller, Ranger of the National Park Service, in charge 

 of this particular section of Rainier National Park, acted as guide on 

 all of these trips and as the party became more familiar with the work 

 of climbing on ice slopes, he led them farther and farther out into the 

 crevassed regions in the central and upper portions of the glacier, where 

 the crevasses cross each other in a bewildering array and make neces- 

 sary enormous detours, in order to cover a short distance in an air line. 

 The difficulty of such travel over the glacier can scarcely be imagined 

 by one unfamiliar with such work and it may be sufficient to say that 

 at one time ten hours were consumed in making a journey of as many 

 miles. The results of the work were, however, of such interest as to 

 repay the efforts expended, and many interesting and unusual forms 

 of glacial work were seen and studied at close range. 



