(Photographs by Arnold Belcher) 



8. — Chinook Bits on top of Mount Wash- 

 ington. He VFaa taken out of harness and. 

 with tracea trailing, the old dqg climbed 

 gravely to the highest point where he sat 

 down to contemplate the miles of rugged 

 country spread out below him. It was the 

 steadiness oC Chinook that made It pos- 

 sible to take the team up. Walden would 

 not have attempted it with any other lead 

 dog. Chinook stood firm at a time when 

 tl-16 task looked hardest and some of the 

 younger dogs were beginning to waver. On 

 the way down VValden spoke to him at the 

 beginning of_ every steep descent saying 

 softly, "Steady, Chinook, steady," and 

 Chinook made it steady. 



