248 THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 
the creeks, lake and outlet satisfied the party that there were no fish 
in the lake. There seems to be plenty of fish food in the streams 
and different parts of the lake but rainbow trout will evidently not stay 
in the lake unless the outlet were screened. Mr. Stone is of the 
opinion that the lake could be stocked with bass from the Columbia 
River. If this is done and the bass stay in the lake, Diamond Lake 
would surely make an ideal place for the sportsman to spend a 
month in the summer. 
While following the course of Silent Creek in the middle of the 
afternoon we saw two large bucks out in the meadow feeding. They 
were quite a distance from us, but we could see their horns shining 
in the sunlight. Our presence did not seem to bother them a great 
deal as they kept on feeding leisurely, they made a pretty picture, 
and if the time had been a month later there is no telling what would 
have happened to them, as the fore finger on the right hand of Mr. 
Ramsby, who carried the gun, twitched nervously. ‘ 
We walked around the lake one morning a distance we estimated 
to be in the neighborhood of 12 miles, and in the afternoon a number 
of us started out to climb Mt. Thielsen. Mr. Melhase and I started 
out together but we got off on the wrong ridge and after crawling 
through brush and clambering over rocks and snowbanks our progress 
was stopped by a straight drop of—I don’t know how many hundreds 
of feet. 
Mr. Stone got nearer the top than any of us and he was only able 
to get within 20 or 30 feet of the summit on account of the over- 
hanging rocks on the peak. The following account of his climb, as 
given in the “Evening Herald” after our return, will probably be of 
interest: 

Looking northwest from Diamond Lake toward Mt. Thielsen from Silent 
Creek Ranger Station. 
Cc. F. STONE IS FIRST MAN TO CLIMB COWHORN PEAK 
Although the feat has been tried many times, often by experienced 
mountain climbers, the first man to climb to the top of Mt. Thielsen, 
or Cowhorn Peak, is State Fish and Game Warden Charles F. Stone. 
The feat was accomplished a few days ago, and required six hours 
from the time Commissioner Stone left his camp, at the base of the 
peak, until he returned. 
And Commissioner Stone lacked about twenty feet of reaching the 
very apex of Mt. Thielsen. He and Henry Stout are going back again, 
probe bls this year, and try to reach the topmost point. ; 
