1922] 



BARRETT, OVER THE ICE TO WILSON GLACIER 



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still young and Al suggested that the going over the ice looked pretty 

 good up toward Wilson Glacier. 



We decided to try our luck and started off on what looked at the 

 moment to be an easy and rather short trip to the foot of this great 

 precipice, and always with the gambler's chance, that we might arrive 

 there I'ust in time to see one of those great avalanches at close range. 



Fig. 50. — Guide feeling his way, with the aid of the ice 

 ax, across a snow bridge over a deep crevasse in Nisqually 

 Glacier. 



The journey on across the main Nisqually over to near the foot of 

 Cushman Crest was fairly easy and over relatively smooth ice. Then 

 we began to make our way up along the western edge of the glacier at 

 the foot of these cliffs. We had often seen avalanches of debris and 

 great clouds of dust arising from this slope as soine boulder would 



