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Sierra Club Bulletin. 



ment of this gateway to the finest scenic regions of this grand 

 National Park. 



Wild Animals in the Park. 

 [This article is of such general interest that it has been given 

 a place amongst the principal articles of this number.] 



Report of Outing Committee. 



The Outing of 1905 to Paradise Park and Mt. Rainier in the 

 State of Washington was one of the most memorable outings ever 

 undertaken by the Club. The Sierra Club party numbered ap- 

 proximately one hundred persons, of whom twenty-five were 

 guests from the Appalachian Mountain Club of Boston and the 

 remaining seventy-five members of the Sierra Club. The 

 Mazama Club also had a party of some seventy-five or eighty 

 persons in the park at the same time. This meeting of so many 

 representatives of the four mountaineering clubs of America 

 (for many of the members of the three clubs above named were 

 also members of the American Alpine Club) was a noteworthy 

 event which will probably not occur again for many years. 



The Sierra Club party visited the Lewis and Clark Exposi- 

 tion in Portland prior to the main trip and were royally enter- 

 tained by the Mazama Club. A trip to Mt. Hood, which was 

 climbed by about sixty members of the party, and an all-day 

 excursion on the Columbia River were pleasant diversions dur- 

 ing their stay in Portland. 



Paradise Park proved to be a wonderful camping-ground, 

 with its alpine meadow-land abloom with myriads of flowers, 

 guarded by sentinel fir and spiny hemlock, enlivened by stream 

 and waterfall, and embraced in the giant arms of the grinding 

 glaciers which extend down on each side of the Park from the 

 towering ermine-robed mass of Mt. Rainier. 



Warned by the fatalities of the past that had occurred on this 

 mountain, its climb was undertaken by the Sierra Club party of 

 sixty persons (one fourth of whom were women) with every 

 precaution to guard against accident. The climb to the summit 

 from Camp Muir certainly established a record for so large a 

 party, which arrived on top about 9:30 a. m., having ascended 

 almost 5,000 feet in altitude in five hours. Though the climb 

 for a portion of the distance was made over very steep and 

 dangerous ice-slopes, necessitating the cutting of steps, yet no 

 accident of even a trivial nature occurred. Several hours were 

 spent on the rim of the crater, and the descent to the main camp 

 was made in time for a 6 130 dinner. Mr. Parsons, of our com- 



