LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 

 Crater Lake Frontispiece 



FACING PAGE 



The White Summit of the Rockies .... 8 



Climbing Snowy Steeps 9 



Snow Before the First Freeze 32 



A Flower-filled Opening in an Aspen Grove . 33 



Sunset on the Continental Divide .... 48 



Spruces in Four Feet of Snow 49 



Sand-blasted Limber Pines 80 



Englemann Spruce — Shaped and Sheltered by a 



Boulder 81 



In a Wind Rapid 96 



Cloud Scenery from the Narrows on Long's Peak 97 



Across Wild Basin to Long's Peak .... 104 



Ptarmigan — " Eskimo Chickens " .... 104 



Gentleness and Grandeur of the Rocky Moun- 

 tain National Park 105 



Lodgepole Pines Cut by Beavers 105 



In the Land of Snow-slides 128 



In a Blizzard on the Summit of the Continental 



Divide 129 



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