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Sierra Club Bulletin. 



ON THE TRAIL WITH THE SIERRA CLUB. 



By William Frederic Bade. 



It is perhaps inevitable that this article should betray 

 an Eastern man's point of view; not, however, that of 

 an indoors man, but of one who by choice and circum- 

 stance has experienced much that is best in " God's out- 

 of-doors " in the East and the Middle West. A Califor- 

 nian, rightly or wrongly, will think this but a humble 

 preparation for what may be had in his own fair valleys 

 among misty camps " of mountains pitched tumultuous- 

 ly," where " far down the fragrant canons sing the green 

 and troubled waters." Suffice it to say, in lieu of the 

 proverbially odious, that the writer found himself too 

 pleasurably engrossed by his new experiences to seek to 

 enhance them by comparison. The fact that the Sierra 

 Club stands for the preservation of " the forests and 

 other natural features of the Sierra Nevada Mountains " 

 will always be its best recommendation with lovers of 

 nature East or West. Both its fame and its aim, to- 

 gether with the desire to explore and enjoy," induced 

 the writer to seek connection with the Club, and on the 

 evening of the 25th of June he found himself on the 

 rails with an enthusiastic contingent of its membership 

 bound for Visalia, the starting-point of the summer's 

 outing. Superlatives come unbidden to one who would 

 attempt a description of the wonderfully varied cos- 



