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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Oct. 30, 1909. 
gunitas, Bear Valley, and other delightful re¬ 
treats. Over 1,000 ardent nature lovers drawn 
from all walks in life compose the personnel of 
this altruistic organization, whose purposes are 
to protect nature’s wonderlands and render 
them more accessible to the public. A merry 
company are these Sierran hikers, and their 
spirit of camaraderie and mutual interest in 
nature lore characterizes their week-end walks. 
Among the trampers of Tamalpais trails one 
cannot fail to notice the increasing representa¬ 
tion of Japanese. Most of them display the 
German thoroughness in observing the ways of 
nature, and may be seen collecting specimens 
with the zeal of scientific students. Others, 
however, have been seen quite frequently re- 
connoitering the approaches to the military 
reservation guarding the Golden Gate. Drake’s, 
Tomales, and Bolinas bays have been charted 
thoroughly by these enterprising sons of the 
Mikado, while the passes and ridges have been 
surveyed by imperial topographical engineers. 
What wild dreams of future glory may have 
filled the heads of some of these Banzai boys 
as they studied these strategic positions. 
But of all this merry mountain clan one 
meets, the most fascinating by far is the girl 
of our outdoor West. Costumed in khaki and 
lithe of limb, she surmounts the steeds with 
light and agile steps. An errant breeze from 
Balboa’s sea caresses her sun-kissed ringlets, 
while health and happiness come to her from 1 
the-renewing woodland. In the returning boat i 
she is often half concealed by a bundle of forest 
spoils. Wistfully her eyeh wander backward to¬ 
ward the sunset’s. glow on amethystine Tamal- 
pdis, as she Sees, in the words of Ino Coolbrith, 
the Gate burn in the sunset, 
The thin thread of mist creep white 
Across the Sausalito hills; 
The evening purple slip from Tamalpais, 
And sky and bay are bright with sudden stars. 
—Harold French in San Francisco Chronicle. 
FISHING A VOLCANO. 
There are many, doubtless, who have still 
fresh in their minds the wonders and terrors 
of an active volcano. They can tell how in the 
company of other tourists they were landed 
safely at the foot and eventually taken up to the | 
crater by some neat railroad with scarcely any 
trouble and less fatigue. But are there many ! 
who can tell of the beauties of the Volcano of 
Laach in the German Eifel, and of the silence 
of its surroundings? Its isolation from rail¬ 
ways, high roads, villages and habitations, says 
Blanche Oakeshott in the Fishing Gazette, is a 
joy which one hopes the tourists can never 
destroy. The miles of dusty, treeless road, of 
unculturable land, speak of a terrible devasta¬ 
tion in bygone ages—a devastation greater than 
ever plow or husbandman could overcome. Yet 
over all is a mass of color. Bright as the 
cinders which sped from the blazing crater are 
now the myriads of grasshoppers, flame-red, 
turquoise-blue, emerald-green and yellow. In 
and out of the stones dart multi-colored lizards, 
butterflies of gorgeons hues seek their match in 
the straggling poppies and corncockle which 
rise in blossom to mock the perseverance of 
some peasant who has made a hopeless effort 
toward the cultivation of the land. How can 
the land be otherwise than impassable when we 
realize the caverns of basalt which underlie it 
for miles in all directions? 
It is impossible for a lover of the works of 
nature to refrain from exploring these depths. 
This can be done, for slightly off our road lies 
the entrance to one of the largest “gold mines” 
—so called—of the Eifel—the great quarry of 
Niedermendig. 
Above the ground all is black and dusty, men 
of giant stature roll great pillars and wheels 
of basalt with the ease of a child bowling a 
hoop. There is a continual rumble under the 
above ground, from the trolleys below and the 
working of the pulleys above, as the stones are 
drawn up, for here are the great millstones 
worked and cut which are famous throughout 
Europe. From a geological point of view it 
would be far more interesting to enter the 
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