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under foot, liberating stones of various sizes, and making it perilous 

 for all, especially those in the front of the procession, lower down the 

 slope. 



Upon reaching the surface of the glacier, we found it covered in 

 this section, with about half an inch of debris. This was just enough 

 to make it especially hard going, for there was not sufficient debris to 



Fig. 47. — Rough ice, showing great crevasses, ridges and 

 pinnacles, out in the middle of Nisqually Glacier. 



make a footing, but still enough so that the heavy calks in our boots 

 would not take hold on the ice beneath the debris. Consequently we 

 not infrequently, after almost gaining the top of some considerable slope 

 of the rough ice, lost our footing at the last step and slid back to the 

 bottom of the slope, and found it necessary to win our way back to 

 this eminence again with even greater care and labor. 



