A Mountain Vacation Land 
The Washington National Forest 
N THE extreme northwestern part of 
the United States, the 
restless waters of Puget Sound, which, 
overlooking 
driven by the tides of the Pacific, race 
backward and forward amid a con- 
stellation of beautiful islands, lies an 
untamed mountain wilderness—one of 
There in the 
Washington National Forest one may lose himself for 
the few remaining strongholds of nature. 
weeks in the hills and give himself up to the enjoyments 
which they afford. 
” 
“Race backward and forward amid a constellation of beautiful islands 
The Mount Baker Region 
The outstanding features of the Washington National 
Forest are Mount Baker, unsurpassed throughout the 
entire Cascade Range for the magnificence and variety 
of its glacial formations, and the gently rolling stretches 
of verdant mountain meadow which blanket the summit 
of the divide in the Upper Skagit River region. Between 
them unfolds a vast uplifted wilderness, a wide-flung 
advance of snow-clad peaks, dotted with mirrorlike 
lakes and separated by narrow shoe-string valleys the 
sides of which are gashed with narrow canyons cut by 
sparkling cataracts. 
The excessive rainfall of the Pacific slope nourishes a 
dense plant and forest growth. There are few open 
places below an el2vation of 4,500 feet, and the thick 
“ Between them unfolds a vast uplifled wilderness”? 
undergrowth, togetiier with the roughness of the country, 
renders travel very difficult where there are no trails. 
Perhaps one-third of the northern half of the Washing- 
On the whole it is a 
richly watered region, and one singularly free from 
ton Forest is above timber line. 
venemous insects o: reptiles which might mar the enjoy- 
ment of the tourist. 
There are few roads within the Washington Forest 
as yet. Many of its beauty spots are reached by trail 
only. It appeals to those who seek the recreational 
frontier. The voice of this Forest is the cry of Nature 
“Gently rolling stretches of verdant mountain meadows’? 
calling man from tl.e common life to some of the realities 
of its sterner existence. It invites the tourist but warns 
him not to come dressed in his parlor clothes. 
Mount Baker, the ‘‘Koma Kulshan”’ of the Indians, 
known to early Spanish navigators but named by Captain 
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