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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1881)
Novemober, 1881. THE WEST SHORE summer a company of us left the beau- ually pours into a hole, and never i discern Klamath lake ami Klamath tiful town of Jacksonville for an excur- heard of more. It is not a chasm, or valley to the east and south, and catch ion to the mountains, and over the rift in the earth, it is simply and ccr- glimpses of Shasta In the distance, but mountains, to the pleasant region of tainly a hole, and so fur a effort tn it w ookin at Sht from an ilmmt Klamath Land, that lay beyond, full of sound its depths are concerned, it may equal height. We were level with the anticipation of the wonderful scenerj be styled the bottomless pit. The Sin- mountain summits, and only the great by the way and legends of the olden prisoned stream rumbles, and murmurs, snow peaks of the Sierra were points time that we were to glran as we went, and disappears. superior to our own. As the interest of this narrative lies in Another wonder of this mountain The shores of Crater lake vary from its experience and not in our personality, road was a deep canyon where pyramid. ,,500 to 3,000 feet In height. To t we will skip the equipment and details of sandbtone, moved by the incessant (Tcn there is no shore, for only at of travel and try to describe the scenes waters, towered along the sides of the on8 pont 0f hazardous descent can a stream and from the height at which Urc.fooled person descend the clilT to we viewed it presented a strange and ,nc Uke level, and when thera the near vicinity of the Rogue river falls. A section of that stream at this point passes through a canyon, making a we visited. Leaving the Rogue river valley oon behind, we entered the foot hills, remarkable appearance. The name prince of a few loulders, and some and the second night camped in the "Pyramid Canyon," is given to this hen dcbr, ,re all the Indication of a locality. shore. The waters are wide, deep, But the wonders of this road culminate profound. It Is seldom that any breese as we reach the summit of the moun stir them, but at moments a weird descent of 400 to 500 feet in course of tain pass. Here we descend to Klamath breath rulllcs them as It moves Ukii one mile, and atone point an arm, or or look back on the Rogue river, and their surface. Climbing again to the tributary of the river, makes an abrupt probably have an elevation of 7100 surrounding wall we look serosa to plunge over a bunk that is 1S1 feet into feet above the sea level. The summit realUe that the waters below reflect the the river below. Our wagon road lay of the pass, however, Is not a mountain sky alwve and only the circling Crater to one side, but we were fortunately height, but the lowest interval between wall, that Is six to eight miles distant, able to reach the river, by a detour of the higher ranges. On to the north corrects the eye In making a distinction . ... as asMt 1 m a mile or so on foot, and stood on the rises a circle of summits, one of which lietwecn sea ami shy. 1 lie eircumier bank onoosite the waterfall, and then. Is known from the valley to the east as ence of the lake Is sumoed to I at rr . . I . . ... 1 r I . . ... !l . 1.. ... I .!-. following instructions given us by Mt. bcott, notable necauie never iree team iwcmy mucins n m former visitors, we searched and found from clustering snows. The region of as high as the summit of the pass a narrow nath down the rockv cliff. Wonder land lies among these sum- traversed by the road we have left. On that brought unsafely to the bed of the mits, for strange as it may seem, Crater tho outside me sleep wans srieiva 011 canyon, where we looked up the sheet lake lies there, crancu among aipine imo mountain .!., p of falling -water and took in all its heights and walled in by precipitous towards the summits on the Inside k Tii ..tinn 1ft bv a siirht shores. The world of fable and tradi- they stand almost perpemncuur, soon. " .1. m If -I ,m r..i. iM ika uialla.1 In saa of Niagara is less pleasant than to look tion, so lar as imiiaii lore anows any. mg oown v., ,tnnn JL. irh natural and extremely thing of such a world, centers in this Once upon a time, before th. wlJe picturesque 'scene, that one can com- uncanny spot. To reach it is the sum- scope of country to the ., was prehend and take in at a glance without mil 01 our amu..., . - - . - - 1 .-a ,v iu reouire more power than my Faber must have stood here the grandest icciing uvciamcu .. v.- - i . , ,, ... omnipotence. Here we drank in the may poMC , ' , " " , 1 . . ... , .. , . .... 1 ,nat uaniU Ixrkule us and makes nart ol t : .-.i if th iron t tm Tiirnmo mm inn rrvuiar roau we i unalloyed satisfaction, though our ardor commenced climbing mountain point. M-ke wall, was no doubt a protuUr. L. j ..I .n,l mn w .. . ! Uv iif tha tamianca wn i" .......... was somewnai uaiiujci"-i " mu v...., . ... , . was wmwn I . I . ' , , . . How great this lmmen volcano must tne ar.pcry . . - r-. - ' h.v. been toucan Imagine when you when a sudden change 01 wmu iwcp 0im sumnm on wvu w. i-u. - - - wnen asuaae k .l J realise that theae walls that now si4id the coua o, sprv - ""7 Z,;" I" '" I'" 7,Soo to feet In height, are only ana we louna ' 7 Uu ih. shell of the mountain .. ll one. SJ -ky W.H,,.he column of e .dge of a tremendous precise, and f.H!r water wm scarce a rod wkic, looking acroaa a wme streicn 01 waier - ""'T"-' ' . 1 . . . 1. .u T-L- - 1 now cum can im caicuiaicu wmn ww -j u i 1rtn descent tne waiers wcie tnsi lay ur Dcncain. im Him ww . . , , Jrf w not Jto ..ken ...glance or com. give a bM ortwenty mile, In c rcurn- " " rt e .niny c.K.de. and prthendI in a moment. It was some. Irenes , a, heigh, of a, W. tjn thia one which is miscalled after the ,wed beside. To look afar, and wipe . . -t 1 I. a '.1 ...I ll. u.,.ri.Lla fiAM ' will give a mountain beside which Hood, Shasta quite picturesque bib, M ihhg to dwell on, and study, and feel &t TW. cakul.tmn quue ...... J " ... - . . ... mountain beside which , nt v.,ure that eyes we the natural sensation. I'su- heath. onir the wonders of JSature wai ey river Among tne wo,c.. - of utf Th-t ,ueh , .re found V. ? the valley of toward. ,1- northwest, we reached a here and became C'WvTr "w'bersm.IU.re.m.ct. higher rc4.l.A. which the eye co.U .Meh th!. take mountain onct sUkkI an active volcano, of and these wall still