phone wire laid across the glaciers and snows. 
A wireless station is also being placed on the 
summit, and the heliograph is used under condi- 
tions which make that instrument practical and 
necessary. 
Schedule of Trip. 
There are two means of access to Cloud Cap 
Inn—one by rail over the Oregon-Washington 
Railroad & Navigation tracks and the other by 
automobile stage over the Columbia River high- 
way to Mount Hood lodge. The round trip can be 
made over both routes. The Oregon-Washington 
Railroad & Navigation train leaving Union Sta- 
tion, Portland, at 7.30 a. m., makes connection 
at Hood River with railway stages and train over 
the Mount Hood Railway, bringing the traveler 
to Parkdale, near Mount Hood lodge and Cloud 
Cap Inn, early in the afternoon. An evening 
train leaves Union Station at 5.30, but does not 
connect with the Mount Hood Railway stage or 
train, which leaves Hood River at 5 p. m. An 
Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation train 
leaving Union Station at 9 a. m. allows several 
hours’ time in Hood River for connection with 
the 5 p. m. Mount Hood Raiiway stage. The 
Mount Hood stages leave the St. Charles Hotel 
at Portland in the morning about ro o’clock, 
en route for Mount Hood Lodge and Cloud Cap 
Inn. The distance by stage is close to 100 miles. 
The South-side Climb of Mount Hood. 
The south-side climb of Mount Hood is made 
from Government Camp Hotel, where climbing 
parties are organized during the summer season 
and conducted to the summit of the mountain 
by competent mountain guides. The ascent 
from the south side is much more gradual than 
from the north. The south slopes of the moun- 
tain are exposed to the sun, and the erosion 
caused by the more rapid melting of the ice and 
snow has made the slopes longer and gentler than 
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the north slopes, where the steep inclines of the 
original volcanic cone still prevail. 
Schedule of Trip. 
Government Camp Hotel, near the summit of 
the Cascades, is reached from Portland, Oreg., by 
automobile stages, which leave Portland daily at 
7.30 a. m..from the corner of Second and Alder 
Streets. The distance by stage is about 55 miles, 
the route being over the Mount Hood loop road. 
The trip can be made by train as far as Bull Runon 
the Portland Railway, Light & Power Co.’s electric 
lines. From Bull Run the remainder of the trip 
can be made on foot by those who so desire, going 
from Bull Run to the Zig Zag and Sandy River 
resorts over the Devil’s Backbone road, passing 
the Marmot post office. The first night’s stop 
can be made at the Aschoff Mountain Home, 
7 miles from Bull Run. The distance from the 
Aschoff Mountain Home to the Sandy and Zig 
Reaching the summit on Mount Hood 
