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them to a point at the head of a large snow field, above our camp, and 

 some distance farther up the mountain and then "shooting" them down 

 over the steep snow. This worked admirably and we were able to sled 

 these poles down to camp over the more level portion of the snow field. 

 The afternoon was pretty far spent by this time and we were able to 

 put up but one tent before dark. All told, by the time dusk arrived, 



Fig. 44. — The Museum's camp on the eastern edge of 

 Nisqually Glacier on Mount Rainier. 



we had spent a rather strenuous day and were anticipating the arrival 

 of reinforcements in the form of lunch. However, these failed to 

 appear and two of us remained in camp for the night with only some 

 chops to appease our hunger. These we broiled, on improvised skewers 

 made from very large blanket safety pins, over the camp fire and we 

 found them very palatable without anything else, even without salt. 



