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but this was its unlucky day. Six o'clock came and 

 brought no sign of it. Finally the order was given to re- 

 trace steps and meet the tardy pack-train at the camping 

 ground below Suiattle Pass. So we marched down the 

 hill again, some thirty of us together, and there remains as 

 one of the funniest recollections of the outing the vision of 

 those jaded mountaineers tramping down an open zigzag, 

 five or six lines of them, marching some to right, some to 

 left, all the same distance apart and all with the same de- 

 jected droop of the head. Just as we reached the camp 

 the first horse crossed Suiattle Pass. Supper was eaten 

 by firelight, and its merry confusion was the prelude to 

 the j oiliest camp-fire of the outing. 



A lazy day in North Star Park was the morrow's pro- 

 gram for most of us, though four of the men left us to 

 knapsack down Railroad Creek to Lake Chelan, while two 

 others undertook the difficult ascent of Chiwawa Moun- 

 tain (8300 ft.) the southern rampart of the park. They 

 reported it to be a very hazardous climb as the crest was 

 composed of loose blocks of crumbling granite and the 

 slope was very abrupt. No records were found on the 

 summit. 



North Star Park is one of the most charming spots we 

 visited, a wooded basin lying just below snow line and 

 surrounded by snow-crowned mountains. Lyman Lake 

 nearly fills the floor, though there is a margin of bright 

 meadows starred with purple asters and blue gentians. At 

 the southern end rises Chiwawa Mountain, its slopes 

 almost entirely covered by the Lyman Glacier. A second 

 lake lies at the glacier's foot, its waters cascading, into 

 Lyman Lake, 300 feet below, over a steep, heather-clad 

 slope. Unlike most muddy glacial streams this waterfall 

 is clear and sparkling ; but here the lake seems to hold the 

 water long enough for the silt to settle, for all along its 

 shore we noticed a heavy deposit of fine sand among the 

 broken rocks. We climbed out on the glacier for a short 

 distance, but finding it deeply cut by crevasses and not 

 knowing at what moment its rapidly melting surface might 



