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Sierra Club Bulletin. 



boulder taluses and slippery cobble-beds I had no diffi- 

 culty in leaving him behind. 



After I had discovered the glaciers on Mt. Lyell and 

 Mt. McClure, Mr. Clark kindly made a second excursion 

 with me to assist in establishing a line of stakes across 

 the McClure glacier to measure its rate of flow. On this 

 trip we also climbed Mt. Lyell together, when the snow 

 which covered the glacier was melted into upleaning icy 

 snow blades which were extremely difficult to cross, not 

 being strong enough to support our weight, nor offering 

 any level spaces between them for steps. Here, being 

 lighter, I kept ahead of Mr. Clark, who, at each awkward 

 fall he had, would gaze at the marvelous ranks of leaning 

 snow blades and say: "I think I have traveled all sorts 

 of roads and rock-piles, and through all kinds of brush 

 and snow, but this gets me." 



Mr. Clark, at my urgent request, joined my small party 

 on a trip along the range to the Kings River Yosemite, 

 most of the way without any trail. He joined us at the 

 Mariposa Big Tree Grove and intended to go all the way, 

 but finding that the time required was much greater than 

 he expected, on account of the difficulties encountered, 

 he turned back near the head of the north fork of the 

 Kings River. 



In cooking his mess of oat-meal porridge and making 

 tea, his pot was always the first to boil; and I used to 

 wonder why, with all his skill in scrambling through 

 brush in the easiest way and preparing his meals, he was 

 so utterly careless about his beds. He would lie down 

 anywhere on any ground, rough or smooth, without tak- 

 ing pains even to remove cobbles or sharp-angled rocks 

 protruding through the grass or gravel, saying that his 

 old bones were as hard as the rocks. 



His kindness to Yosemite visitors and mountaineers 

 was marvelously constant and uniform and brought him 

 the sincere respect of all he met. 



He was not a good business man, and in building a 

 large hotel and barn at Wawona before the travel to 



