Photograph by D. B. Church 

 A CAMP SITE OF 1915 : TREES ALL KILLED BY BLAST FROM THE VOLCANO 



On our first expedition our camp stood on the bank of Fickle Creek, whose channel, six 

 feet deep, occupied the foreground of the present picture. During the year the channel 

 completely filled up, so evenly that the location of the former bank could not be detected, 

 and a new channel has been dug a thousand feet away. Yet so gently was this filling accom- 

 plished that the embers of our camp-fire, on the same level and only a few feet away, were 

 not disturbed. Compare the picture on the opposite page. 



Geographic Society will always stand as 

 the first authoritative account of the great 

 eruption of Mount Katmai. YVe there- 

 fore suggest that this new volcano be 

 called Mount Martin. 



'We were not able to determine the po- 

 sition or altitude of this new volcano with 

 precision, but have located it approxi- 

 mately on the map given on page 23. 

 Although situated in the main range, it is 

 considerably lower than the neighboring 

 mountains. Its altitude is approximately 

 5,000 feet. 



ASH SLIDES MORE THAN A THOUSAND 

 FEET HIGH 



When we reached Soluka Creek we 

 found it much more formidable than our 

 reconnoiters in the dust storm had indi- 

 cated. Leaving the others on the bank, I 

 dropped my pack and waded out through 

 the dead forest for half a mile in the icy 



water. From that distance it looked 

 wider, deeper and swifter than from the 

 starting point. I therefore decided it was 

 impracticable to attempt to cross under 

 our heavy packs, so we camped that night 

 in the dead forest on the flat near by. 



Next morning, starting to hunt for a 

 practicable ford, we climbed up on to the 

 shoulder of a mountain where we could 

 get a bird's-eye view of the creek below 

 and select the likeliest place to try. ' 



Here we found a new experience in 

 climbing the great ash slides with w T hich 

 the lower slopes are covered. Wherever 

 the mountains were precipitous and too 

 steep for the ash to stick, it slid down 

 into the valleys, covering the lower slopes 

 with great fans of sand, which stand at 

 the critical angle ready to slide down at 

 the slightest provocation. Some of these 

 ash slopes are more than a thousand feet 

 high. Their surface is loose, rolling sand, 



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