them. We had 

 reached the rim at 

 5.05 p. m. The mo- 

 ment we stopped mov- 

 ing we began to suffer 

 so from our cold, wet 

 feet that waiting was 

 torture ; but we lin- 

 gered on the edge for 

 50 minutes hoping for 

 better views, but as 

 the clear intervals be- 

 came less and less fre- 

 quent we had to give 

 it up and descend. 

 None of us fully real- 

 ized, I think, how far 

 we had come till we 

 found how long the 

 return journey was, 

 but we reached our 

 camp safely at 10.20 

 p. m. 



Next day I was up 

 at 5.30 to take pic- 

 tures of the moun- 

 tains, for practically 

 the only opportunities 

 to get good pictures 

 of the volcanoes came 

 early in the morning. 

 The sky was clear ex- 

 cept for a few very 

 delicate cirrus clouds 

 above the mountains 

 to the east. They 

 were long combed out 

 and lay in horizontal 

 lines, drifting slowly 

 toward Katmai. 



Photograph by L,. G. Folsom 

 THE ASCENT OVER MUD-COVERED SNOW 



The climbers are within a few hunched feet of the crater rim 

 (see text, page 51) 



THE WONDERI ; UE SCENERY OP THE 

 CANYON 



Our distant view from the mountain 

 of the second Katmai Valley, with its 

 lakes, and especially the dam, which had 

 caused the great flood, made us anxious 

 to penetrate the canyon and examine the 

 upper valley in detail. But we found it 

 impossible to penetrate beyond the mouth 

 of the canyon, being stopped on the brink 

 of a 500-foot precipice, which we named 

 Prospect Point. 



The magnificence of the view from this 

 point was simply beyond description. 



It is like the Grand Canyon and the Ca- 

 nadian Rockies all put together and then 



the volcanoes added. The desert land- 

 scape, covered with the many-colored muds 

 from the volcano, together with the fine 

 colors of the rock Avails, recall the Grand 

 Canyon. But the upper slopes, with their 

 sharp summits occupied by snow-fields 

 and glaciers, remind one of the Canadian 

 Rockies, in particular of such places as 

 the "Valley of the Ten Peaks." 



Down the sides pour numerous water- 

 falls, some of which are of great beauty. 

 Opposite Prospect Point is one whose 

 thin, misty streams drop 1,500 feet from 

 the top of the inner canyon clear to the 

 bottom (see page 61). Two more, each 

 several hundred feet high, may be seen 

 on the slopes of Katmai (see page 52). 



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