The Sky-Line of the Tatoosh Range. 



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that the day is young, and that we, body and mind, feel 

 as fresh and un jaded as the day, that the spirit of ad- 

 venture is abroad in the land, and that the gladness of 

 the sunshine has taken possession of our souls. 



We loitered along like a band of children, making 

 merry over every trivial happening, as v^hen the inlet 

 of the lake proved a little embarrassing for some of us 

 to cross. Those who had waterproof boots chose a 

 shallow place and waded, but one spry maiden whose 

 footgear had seen three summers of mountain wear 

 elected to jump. She landed safely, amid cheers, but 

 her lunch, not faring so well, fell in midstream, and was 

 fished out dripping at the end of an alpenstock with all 

 the empressement of a deep-sea rescue. 



At a point several miles from our objective peak we 

 started to climb, taking the most practicable route to the 

 snow-fields and passing up through them to the crest. 

 Here we stopped to don snow-goggles or veils and to put 

 on the " war-paint " that protected our faces from 

 snow-burn, and then, with a fresh grip on our alpenstocks, 

 set forth eastward on the " Sky-Line Trail." Starting 

 from the saddle below Pinnacle, we skirted the edge of 

 the peak to the east. Pink heather and white cassiope 

 bells spread close to the snow-line, and the stunted firs, 

 growing on the more open southern slope, crept to its 

 brow to take a peep northward into the world of ice and 

 snow. 



Instead of lying almost in line with Pinnacle, as it 

 appeared from camp, Unicorn is set back from the main 

 ridge nearly two miles. Another divide, running almost 

 at right angles in a southerly direction, connects Unicorn 

 with the longer range, and at the intersecting point ot 

 the two ridges there is a low peak. High up on this, 

 feeding in the open near its summit, we had a good look 

 at two deer, possibly an eighth of a mile away. They 

 scented our approach almost immediately, and set ofif at 

 a lively pace around the peak, disappearing finally over 

 the divide very close to the place we had marked for 



