THE photographs above -were made 

 by Arnold Belcher last Tuesday 

 when he climbed to the lop of 

 jn. Washington with Artliur T. 

 Walden of Wonalancet, ,N. H. 

 and Walden's dog team. The trip was on© 

 ttlat, few people believed could be roa<de by 

 4«g team. The tej»m was led \>y Chinook, 

 (iVe best known lead dog in the country, 

 and the other five dogs were all sons of 

 Chinook. The member."* of the party were 

 Arthur TValden, Belcher, Bay Evans, the 

 guide. Harold Mohn of Lynn, Joe Dodge, 

 Ludwig Gelskop ol Falhe and W. A, Mao- 



donald of The Transcript. These all 

 reached tlie top of the mountain. The 

 temperature at the Glen House at the 

 bottom at the time of the start at 7.30 A. 

 M. was 24 ahove zero. At the Half "Way 

 House it was 12 above and at tlie summit 

 U was 10 below zero. 



3'arts of the trip which required eleven 

 and a half hours from the Glen House to 

 the top or th'> nioiintain and return were 

 made over iirecinlioii.s slopes ot ice and 

 hard-oruKterl sno'.t where a foothold would 

 have been impos.sible without ice-creepers. 

 At points a .slip would have meant a quar- 

 ter of a" mile drop down a slope steeper 



than the roof of a. house. ' It was at one I 



of these places, the slope of the lower spur, 

 of Chandler Ridge, Just past the five-mile 

 mark of the eight-mile climb, that the "log 

 team was in danger. The dogs, unable to 

 get a foothold, were supported by Walden 

 and Evans until someone else was able to 

 get a grip on a rope attached to the sled 

 and keep the sled steady while the *-est of 

 the crossing wos made. 



1. — An ea.oier pan ot the way up. Some 

 of the .slopes were protected by stone 

 walls at the outer edge of the carriage 

 road over which the upward trip was made. 

 The carriage road, however, lies in many 

 places under five feet of snow which slants | 

 with the mountain. In some places there 



I was no wall visible. The dpgs, where they 

 had any kind of footing at all, walked 

 faster than a man could climb. 



