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Sierra Club Bulletin. 



the twisted tamaracks, where the fire now sparkled mer- 

 rily, we sat contentedly and watched the pale crescent 

 moon shining ever brighter as the darkness gathered, 

 until it too dropped out of sight behind Fin Dome. 



The next morning's undertaking was the most haz- 

 ardous of the outing, — the crossing of Glenn Pass. The 

 luckless mules had first to swim the narrow neck of water 

 connecting the two basins of Rae Lake and then plow 

 their way through the snow to the foot of the pass. 

 Fortunately for us the snow was in perfect condition 

 and gave the firmest footing possible under the circum- 

 stances. A tongue of shifting rock led part way up the 

 wall, but above this the snow was so steep that the mules 

 were unpacked and led up it unencumbered, while the 

 kyacks were carried to the summit by hand. It was 

 anxious work watching their slow progress and realizing 

 that a single flounder might mean the loss of an animal. 

 Nor was our anxiety lessened on reaching the summit, 

 for the other side of the pass looked fully as forbidding 

 as the steep incline up which we had just labored. It 

 proved to be less difficult than we anticipated, however, 

 for the descent was made with only one slight mishap, 

 one of the mules falling and having to be unpacked 

 before he could be induced to rise. 



At Lake Charlotte we found only a few patches of 

 meadow appearing through the snow, and Bullfrog, 

 where we made our next camp, was likewise still frost- 

 bound. So, as our provisions were running low, and as 

 the mules needed better pasturage than the scanty vegeta- 

 tion of the upper country afforded, we decided to journey 

 down Bubb's Creek the next morning to Junction Mead- 

 ows and return to camp the following day instead of 

 remaining at Bullfrog long enough to climb University 

 Peak, as we had hoped to do. 



On the whole, and in spite of the many disappointing 

 and enforced changes of plan, the Outing was exception- 

 ally enjoyable. The unusual conditions gave rise to so 

 many unusual experiences and laughable incidents that 



