.INAL MOUNTAIN 



AN ILLUSTRATION OE MOUNT KATMAI AS IT WAS AND IS 



Showing the original mountain reconstructed, the present crater rim, and the crater with 

 its boiling lake. The Woolworth Building, drawn to the same scale, gives an idea of the 

 depth of the crater. 



never had an accident, I never could free 

 myself from the dread of the crossing 

 and the fear that the next time it would 

 "get" one of us. 



GRAND VIEW CAMP 



When we arrived at the head of the 

 flat we picked our camp site so as to 

 command a view of the surrounding 

 mountains. The marks of the great flood 

 were no longer fresh on the ground and 

 it was evident that there had been no 

 similar catastrophe during the year that 

 had elapsed. We therefore had no fear 

 of a repetition of the flood and did not 

 hesitate to camp out in the open, choos- 

 ing, in fact, an island in the river, which, 

 although being cut away by the swift 

 water at the rate of several yards a day, 

 was safe enough for the period of our 

 visit. 



I never expect to be privileged to have 

 a camp site surrounded by grander scen- 

 ery than was this island. On the east 

 side of the valley was the waterfall that 

 we christened Fulton's Fall, nearly a 

 mile away, but the more impressive for 

 its distance, framed in between the bril- 

 liant orange and green slopes of two 

 mountains, which we called Slide Moun- 

 tain and Avalanche Mountain, and backed 

 by the rich red precipices of Barrier 

 Mountain. The latter, though in reality 

 several miles away, at the head of a val- 

 ley, appeared set just a few hundred feet 

 back of the fall, which has the majestic 

 sweep attained only by falls of much 

 greater height than breadth. 



Farther up at the head of the valley 

 stood the 1,500-foot cliffs which guard 

 the entrance to the inner canyon of Kat- 

 mai River, while towering aloft over in- 

 accessible precipices the summits of Slide 

 and Avalanche Mountains themselves 

 presented fine enough spectacles to com- 

 mand attention in any other setting. But 

 here they were eclipsed, for on the other 

 side of the valley we could see the whole 

 chain of glacier-covered volcanoes of the 

 main range in continuous series, broken 

 only by Katmai Pass, whose 2,700 feet 

 looked low indeed by comparison. 



From north to south were Katmai, 

 Trident, Mageik — partly hidden behind 

 Observation Mountain, and finally the 

 distant steam from Martin (map, p. 23). 



It was evident that the activity of all 

 the vents was somewhat greater than the 

 year before. There could be no longer 

 any doubt but that considerable steam 

 was rising from Katmai, whereas the 

 year before we could not be certain of 

 any activity. The column from Mageik 

 was larger, and there was a small column 

 rising from a point well down on the 

 slope of Martin which we had not seen 

 before. 



INDICATIONS OF ACTIVITY ON THE BERING 

 SEA SIDE OE THE RANGE 



In addition to these vents, every time 

 it was clear we saw very definite indica- 

 tions of more volcanoes on the other side 

 of the range. Through Katmai Pass we 

 could see two large clouds when every- 



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