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If You Would Enter into Intimate Friendship with ; 
the Mountains, Journey ‘Thru Them on Horseback 
LL America has turned to the 
out-of-doors. On every hand we 
see people preparing for vaca- 
tions, some for a few days, others for 
a month and many for all summer, 
The automobile has made it possible 
for more people to get out into the 
country than have ever gone before, 
and consequently the outdoor spirit has 
gotten into our blood and our whale 
nation is behind the back-to-nature 
movement. 
The outdoor movement means better 
health for all of us who take part in 
it. It means better roads which will 
take us to the sections of the country 
we are interested in, and these roads 
are of great advantage to farmers and 
ranchers throughout the country. We 
need good roads to put us in touch with 
interesting bits of country, but we 
should be careful, however, not to build 
too many roads. The charm of most 
mcuntain countries lies in their inac- 
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cessibility, and when we cut up a won- 
derful scenic district with roads, we 
ruin its homely beauty. 
The automobile is just the first step 
in getting acquainted with the real 
outdoors. After one reaches the end of 
the road there are three forms of travel 
which have been used since the world be- 
gan and which are as good today as 
they were centuries ago. They are: by 
pack train, by boat or canoe, and on 
foot. 
(es order to penetrate real virgin coun- 
try, and all of us get that desire, 
ence we have turned our faces to the 
open spaces, we must journey by one of 
these methods. In going on foot, one 
necessarily is limited to a very few es- 
sentials, especially if the trip is to be 
of any length, and one should be a 
past master in the art of taking ad- 
vantage of everything that nature has 
to offer in order that he may be com- 
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fortable, although carrying what would 
seem only a very meager outfit, in- 
deed, to one unaccustomed to this form 
of travel. j 
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Saas of our early pioneers would be 
out in the wilderness for months 
and they did not overburden themselves 
with packs either. They knew how to 
take advantage of what nature had to 
offer. Game was more abundant than 
it is now, but most of all they were 
simple people, to whom a great many of 
the things that we now look upon as 
necessities were only luxuries. Some 
of those old woodsmen lived for months — 
on a sort of coarse cornmeal and the | 
meat they killed with their rifles. 
In going by canoe, one is not nearly 
so limited. A more elaborate equip- 
ment can be taken, and although one is” 
restricted to the navigable streams, 
there are great areas of North Americ 
that are a vast net work of waterways 

