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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (May 23, 1912)
II01M) lilVEIt (il,ACIElt, TIlDlliiOAY, MAT 23. 1912 THE MOTORIST AND THE MOUNTAIN lever the orld at their feet at first , derful but he politely reserved and I perhaps tearfully ; then hion,eljf ;then j maintained the opinion that he had I k I . 1 r Fvc 4 -a in. cunn "iiuF Vnnna i . k. ...... I spits The following is an interesting etory written by Randall H. Howard, of Mount Hood and how the people of ad-ioinn- counties are planning on mak ing it more and more accessible each Vear by constructing roads to its base. Mr. Howard spent several days here last eummer securing data for the story for Sunset Magazine, in the May issue of which it appeared. It used to be thought that the glory of scaling one of the great mountain peaks of the continent was reserved for the exceptional beings whom na ture had specially endowed with strength, daring and leisure. It was an accomplishment to be retold to grand children; to be entered in the autobiourauhv. Nevertheless, several thousand persons have registered their names in the famous Mazama copper box at the too of Mount Hood during the nast ten vears. Yet there has been but one fatality in the entire rtc ord of the mountain ; and this fatality was due to the rashness of a man who thought he "could eo anywhere that a guide could," and who chose one of the most hazardous of the routes to the top, even though he had never before climbed the mountain. Likewise, a surprising percentage of persons who make the trial are able to roach-; the tup. Last summer, of the several hundred persons who started to the top from the Portland side, a guide assures that only three -one man anil two women failed to realize their goal, and thii'jforeVere deprived of the in spiration that an elevation of 11,2") f-et and the summit of a wonderful snow-capped peak alone can bring. 'Ihe automobile has had a part, in making Mount Hood accessible. The mountain may be approached from two general directions either from I'ort land, or from the town of Hood River, sixty miles up the Columbia. If the approach is from the town of Hood River, the preliminary twenty-seven miles thrutiirhlthe beautiful Hood River valley and past the world-famous apple orchards to t oud Can Inn. will proo ably be taken in an automobile- though to pay tribute to the older days of the west one may make the rule more lets urely in an old-timo stage coach. If from the Portland direction, one may traverse the entire sixty miles to the base or Mount lloou vv auomoone or he may go part way by electric rail way and.then transfer to ajhorse stage or an automobile stage, stopping for lunch at one of the taverns along the road. Welsh a. Twaney s. anil the new Mount Hood Tavern, are each be twcen"eit!hteeii and twenty miles (lis tant from the snow-line; Rhododendron is fourteen miles distant ; and Govern mcnt Camp, or Pompeii, is four miles distant. Leaving these taverns, the mountain climbers congregate (luring the evening at the very basu'of the mountain, anil spend the night in the tent camns of the mountain guido. The mountain climber whether he choose the Hood River valley side or the 1'ortland side of tho mountain will breakfast about four o'clock in the morning. From this point on, the guide is the commanding general, al beit the guide must necessarily be a practical diplomat, firm and resource ful. The person who has seen a snow capped peak only in the distance, or only studied souvenir postal cards, will probably mitten and fur himself for a climb up Mount Hood much as he would for a trip to the Klondike. And if so, he will be surprised on this eventful morning to Bee the guide and the sea soned mountain climbers in their shirt sleeves, carrying only a sweater or a light coat as an extra wrap. Hut the guide will inspect the party, will see that all are in order for the endurance test spikes in their preferably high topped shoes ; legging ; loose fitting, strong Ji'lothes; "bib" overalls or bloomers or short skirts for the ladies; and alpenstocks and snow glasses for everybody. And each person, or each couple, will also carry a light lunch. Also, it may seem strange to talk about sun-blistering on a climb up Mount Hood. An old joke to the effect that one should take a lesson from Dame Nature and transform his face to the hue of a native South African, seems ever-living around snow-capped peaks. Hut the "wise man" will only mar his natural complexion with a thick coating of llesh colored grease paint. On the first lap of the climb, ihe tact of tho guide is tested to the extreme in conserving the physical en ergy of the party, buoyed up as they are by the rarefied air, and the unfold ing world-panorama at their feet. Hut the knowledge that the side of the mountain is interwoven with blind glacial cracks, some of them perhaps several hundred feet deep, soon calms tho rovers. The guide knows the mountain thoroughly. He can read the surface of the ice and the snow as ex pertly as the river captain does the rillles and the sea captain the waves There is only one regular resting place in the long ascent at Lunch Rock on the Hood River valley side, and at Crater Rock on the Portland side. Ihe guide knows that more fre (luent long stops are risky, often bringing on muscular stiffness. The freakish Crater Rock may remind one of the scare stories that are eirculat periodically, to the effect that "Mount noon is sneiKing. 1 lie guides deny me smoke stories, but they do not oeny inai ciouus or steam I. live lioen seen arising from the mountain. Cra ter Rock is one of the proofs. Natur ally this modernly steam heated rock. almost at the pinnacle of the moun tain, is capitalized to its full worth. It hm been transformed into a lunch ing tavern, and it is a most convenient resting and waiting place for thost whose strength or grit has ebbed awav ft, . i i - - tne sieepesi enmu comes just alter Lunch Kock or Crater Rock has been left behind. Hot the theory of the guides is that almost anybody who can reach these points can also climb to the top. If the long rest and the warm lunch do not revive the drooping and the sagging ones to renewed strength me gunle then displays another trait ot Ins professional equipment. II . t L . I m muses n oasiy diagnosis ol muscles and vital organs, and if favorable, he may then resort to a little "jollying" and "blutling. " "Why, man, your work is all done." he will begin. "Rut mine is only be ginning. Ail you have to do now is to follow along in my tracks mid I've got to work. Resides," he mav hurl as a tinal "bluff" at a weak kneed genus male, "if you stav here you'll have to pay two dollars extra on your gunie ice up- anil the expenses of the whole party tonight and tomorow when they come bacK to make another trial without you." The mountain climbers start, and the guide does work. He goes ahead, fol lowing the safety rope, cutting notches in the ice, creeping on and on toward the very pinnacle of nature's great monument of lava rock and ice. The climbers slowly follow, up and up, piercing the clouds. The assistant guide acts as a rear guard. At last! At last! The summit! The summit! The climbers look out tion of the view. i sights in Switzerland." But when the The descent of Mount Hood H much ' top was reached, when be looked out more hasty, though in some ways more across the wonderiul panorama of cit tiresome and more dangerous than the uu-climb. Some of the mountain climbers will inevitably beg and plead to stay on top, beg to tee the sunset from the world pinnacle. Hut the guide is firm. He knows the mountain. He roused the party and Btarted at four o'clock in the morning that he might get over the snow before it was soft ened by the risir g sun. And he knows that he must leave the top and get olf the ice surface before it again freezes. Hut the down-climb has it elements of les, rivers, vaueys, plains, hills, moun tain ranges and mountain peaks- some of them three hundred miles away he was silent and awe stricken. He con fessed that no view in Switzerland could equal it. Likewise, an army officer, discharged from the service with the best wishes of a group of surgeons who, after a numerous operations, told him that tbt I moiths of his life were numbered on j trttir fingers,. Ctdonel W. F. Tucket I traveled over the world and through the cnited states, lured here and there, hoping yet fearing. At last he approached Mount Hood, via the Hood River valley. And there he lives to dayin a roomy log cabinet the edge of his cleared orchard tract, where the white sides and the storm beaten pin nacles end the fresh cool treath of old Mount Hood have given him a new life-grip and remade him into.a vigor ous man. trn...l.lllo I the lower memorable, cxhiliarating, spu't. The Boft snow on slopes invites everybody to slide, the alpenstock guiding and checking and often three-tpiarters of a mile or more is clipped off in a brief minute. About four miles from the moun tain's perpetual snow-line there lies a little meadow along the old Harlow road. Here is "Government Carnp," where the Yocum family has been "at home" to travelers for nearly thirty years. O. C. Yocum, veteran moun tain guide, followed the old Oregon trail as a boy with his pioneer parents. One day, while the ox teams and horses were plodding westward over the Harlow road, the immigrant lad cauht a vision. It was faii.t almost nothing -only the sharp white point of a mountain peak, piercing the dis tant western horizon, burnished to a glowing red by the early morning nun. Hut it was a finger print of destiny, though young Yocum Old not know that he was just then being introduced to a life-long intimacy with Mount Hood. Yeiirs later, when the hoy had grown up and married, the doctors intimated that he had best make his will. Hut nature often fools the men of medi cine. Yocum remembered the little meadow, along the old Harlow road, only four milus from Mount Hood's perpetual snow linti. lie had never forgotten, however, for scarcely a summer had passed but that he and his family had driven up from the Willam ette valley to camp out for a few weeks, to climb the mountain, to rusti- 1 cate, to dream and hunt and fish. Hut this time it was a perpetual camp. He located the old meadow camping ground as a homestead. He built a comfortable log caoii: in the shadow of the mountain. Travelers stopped, and his home soon became known as "Government Camp". He and his family lived here summer and winter, though the snow was often from eight to twelve feet deep. He regained robust health. He became a worshiper of Mount Hood; he came to know the mountain as a preacher knows Ins bible. lie had a name lor every pinnacle and point and crag, every barren spot, every snow held, every glacier. When Mr. Yocum first looked out from the top of Mount Hood, on July Hi, lHH.'f, not to exceed one hundred persons had preceded him to the top. "I climbed the mountain hundreds of times during the twenty-three vears that I was a professional euide." Mr. Yocum said to me. "And every time, I saw something new. Every time. the three-huiidred-mile view ever Ore gon and Washington, and far into Cali fornia, was more wonderful. Every time the panorama of the wheat lields and the plains and the hills of the In land Empire, the orchards and the cit ies and the towns of the Columbia river valleys and the Willamette val ley were more inspiring. 1' very time the lakes and the rivers and the haze of the Pacific ocean, and the ranees with their eight visible snow capped peaks of more than 1(1,01)0 feet eleva tion, were more beautiful." Viewed in the light of the present accessibility of Mount Hood, the day when Mr. Yocum first climbed to the top seems ages ago. The pinnacle of Mount Hood is now almost as easy to reach by the average person as the sea shore. Hundreds climb to the summit every year. In fact, a number of times, more than a hundred persons have in a single day placed Their names in the copper box at the top. nut there are other Mount Hood en thusiasts. One of them is a Portland business man, who stands in Oregon for a must peculiar hobbv which hobby is known to have already ab sorbed thousands of dollars. Have you seen the mountain dur ing the last two mornings-:'" he asked almost before 1 had had time to glance about his ollice at the several enlarged pictures of Mount Hood. "It's grand - grand !" ho spoke with glowing, almost boyish enthusiasm. "VMiy, Portland people don't don't hegin to know what Mount Hood is. If they did they would all see it -ami not a single one of the thousands of tourists who go through would miss it. Why, if sumo cities had this mountain as near them as it is'to us, they would make iit pay them a million dollars a year." And to prove that there was sub stance behind his enthusiasm, in an other five minutes K. Henry Weinme had made hold the uniuiilili'ed state ment that he would give a quarter million dollars for building a hard sur face automobile road up to the very nase ot mount Hood -il the state of Oregon would also give a quarter-million. "I haven't got a quarter million dol lars," he continued and explained. "Hut I can get it. 1 can sell bonds and I've got Portland property to guarantee the bonds." T hen the speaker went on to tell of the great improvements that had been made in the auton obile road to Mount Hood during the past two years. Karlicr than that date, an automobile rarely ever started from Portland on tho sixty-mile run to the base of the mountain without taking along block and tackle, and axes and shovels. They didn't know what might happen before they returned. And they were fortun ate if able to make the run in half a day, or even a day. Hut that time is gone. A number nf automobiles have latelv covered the distance in less than three hours, and other automobiles that make rceulur daily round trips during the summer months keep their running time to the mountain within four hours. Hut the dreamers have not stepped dreaming. The arc working, agitating, for a hard surface mad all the way. then, they say, they will be able to visit the mountain any day of the year, winter or summer. l'hen. thev promise Mount Hood will be one of the most accessible and one of the most won- lerful of the scenic beauties of the world. Hut time will do even more. for there is now under construction an electric road that will reach from Port land to the very base of the mountain. bo it is that Pioneer mountain guides and automobile enthusiasts the Yo- cums and the Wemmes-have made the Mount Hood that the tourist of todav ows. Westerners are so surrounded with nature beauties and scenic won- ers that the artistic sense of many is biased. Hut how different with the foreigner, the easterner! For ex ample, a Swiss guide made a trip to the top of Mount Hood. From the very leginning of the climb he was willing to admit that the mountain was won- HATS Km You can spot them a block away. Not so strikingly . conspicuous-cut and style go away in the lead. $3.00 SHOES "Walkover" has a last that's cidedly high grade and a wonderful fitter THEMHYLO" Glad to show you de- J. G. VOGT Oregon Lumber Co. Dee, Oregon ALL KINDS OF LUMBER, SHINGLES SLAB WOOD, ETC. CAN FURNISH CEDAR SHIP LAP, ANY QUANTITY Both Phones Estimates Furnished "Something New Under the Sun" The Mount Hood Ironing Cabinet CONSISTS OK THE FOLLOWING COMBINATIONS: Lap Board, Ironing Board, Sewing Cabinet, Writing Desk, Etc. 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ToufrhMexiran st,w uB Look Over-This List-Ask Us About Shoes and Things Bragg Mercantile Company Notice of Completion of Street Improve ments. Notice In hereby givm that the Transit-r A Uvery Co., con traders, have tiled written no Hi this 21 it day of May, nr the comple tion of Care trie Avenue by Krudiug the road. ay irom curb line to curb line in front of HlockH 10 and 11 of Heoond Addition Wnl; H'oi'kn IS and ID of Hood Klver Proper and Hlcx'ks 2 and 3 of Waucoma Addition, under their contract, with tho cily heretofore made and entered into and under Ordinance No 'iM, and that the amount due aatd con. traciora lor said improvement upon Its ac ceplaru la hereby stated to be $771.(17. And notice Ik lurttiur ijlven that any' oblec. lions to the acceptance of mild work under the contract with Ihe said contractor on the pnrt of ald city may be tiled In the office ol the undersigned City Recorder by any inter ested party at any time within seven days from Hie date of It linn mid uollce, to wit, within seven days from the lst day of May, Wi. This notice Is published In the Hood River Glacier for two consecutive issues thereof, the date of Ihe first publication thereof beina, the 2lrd day of May, Mi. H. I.. 1IOWK, ni'Win.TO City Recorder. Notice of Completion of Street Improve ments. Notice Is hereby (jlven that Charles W. Con. nor A Son, contractors, have tiled written no tice this 21st day of May, 1MI2, of the comple tion of Seventh Street in front of Block 2 of Waucoma I'm k ami Ulock :tf of Hood Klver I'roper by laylni? cement curbs and walks, under their contract with the city heretofore made and entered iuto under ordinance No. ;f.'ii, and that the amount due fur aald tin. provemcnt Usu its acceptance la hereby slated to be t-M. And notice Is further given that any objec tions to the acceptance of said work under Ihe contract with Ihe said contractors on the part of said city may be filed tn the oltVce ol the undersigned City Keeordi r by any inter ested party at any time within s ven dayi from the date of filing aald notice, to wit, wtthin seven days from the aist day of May, 1(112. t'hls notice Is published In the Hood Klver Glacier lor two consecutive Issues thereof, the date of the first publication thi rail being the Slrd day of May, 1912. II. L. II'HVK, mSliiiM city Recorder PREFERRED STOCK Fruits, Black Raspberries, Red Raspberries, Blue Berries, Cherries, Loganberries, Straw berries, etc., make the best kind of pies. tarts, and all sorts of dainty desserts that can be put together in a hurry when you have the right kind of good things to start with. Preferred Stock Canned Goods Packed Wherever the Best are Grown are always safe to buy. Only the finest of sound, Oregon berries find their way into Preferred Stock cansj plenty of pure cane sugar is used, which accounts for their delicious navor. rreterred stock berries are never "insipid." The berries are from Orefyn Preferred Stock at xnur Grocer's. AL1.EH I.IWI8, W1iol;al Orocera. PORTLAND, OREGON, V. 8 A. ISP FRESH SPRING VEGETABLES RINNAIRD KINtSEY Phone 78 Notice of Completion of Street Improve ment. Notice Is hereby given that Chas.W. Connor Hon, contractors, have tiled written no tice this 21st day of May, 11)12, of t'.ie com pletion ol Mnmello Avenue In Iron! of Blocks S1,:I4 and 0ol Hood River Proper, and Hlncks and 2 of Park Addillou. and Hlock I of Wau coma Park, by laying cement curb and walks, under their contract with the City heretofore made and entered into under Ord i nance No. 3-ti and that the amount due aald contractor for said Improvement upon its acceptance is hereby stated to be JIHHii.m. And notice Is further given that any objec tions to the acceptance of said work under the contract with the aald contractor on the part of said City may be tiled In the office ol the undersigned City Reeoruer by anv Inter. ested party at any time within seven days irom i ne date ol nnug Ham notice, to-wit, within seven days from, the 2ist day ol May, 11112. This notice Is published In the Hood River Glacier for two consecutive issues thereof, the dale of the first publication thereof being the 'iid day of Mav, 1D12. It. L. HUW K, i2.'lin 0 city Recorder. Painting and Tinting Done on short notice. anti-eel. Country solicited. Satisfaction guar trade especially F. HAWLEY Phone .Ul-X Postoffice Box 212 The Purity Dairy Co. Yours for prompt service and Good Milk THOS. D. CALKINS Real Estate Moved Well Last Year Give us a trial and we will make it do the same thing this year. Figures tell. The total amount of the sales of property handled by us last year reached $207,950, more than a quarter of a million. Sale prices ranged all the way from $30,000 to $600. WHEN YOU WANT TO T o XT:U 1 DO BUSINESS CALL ON W.O.JNlCllOl A real bargain in a nice well im proved 10-acre tract, all in trees; good house; half mile from town; easy terms; Inquire of H. P. ALLEN. Thone 333 K We are Open for Business WITH A NICE LINE OF FRESH AND CURED MEATS. 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