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Show THE SALIN A SUN, SAUNA, UTAH 7 The friendly added. con- test was approaching an end, with Blaurock and Ervin Ml ahead. After Blaurock and Ervin Iiad climbed Kit Carson, the last of the 14,AK)-foo- t peaks, Carhart, who likes Sierra Blanca best of all lie says it "has character, Is friendly, Is moody, is threatening, Inviting challenging, asked Blaurock this Inevitable question: And which peak Is ths most interesting to climb? Which would you go back to time after, time Just to scramble up over the old fel- Carl Blaurock and Ascend46 Colorado Peaks of Owen 14,000 Feet Will Ervin low?" He thought for a moment Peak Is a good It has interest at every turn. That Is true, too, of many of the peaks In the southwestern part of the "Longa climb. state. But of the whole list I think I should go back oftenest to Bierra Blanca than any other one. That peak has real character." Now, Ilkes Feak Is the most famous of the Colorado Rockies and probably the n mountain In the world. Why? Simply because the most people have ascended It; they are numbered by the millions. You see, theres a cog road to the summit and an automobile road and the ascent by foot is no more than a tedious climb. But from the scenic viewpoint Pikes Peak Is simply a vast mass of rock. "De gustibus non est there Is no disputing about tastes, whether in mountains or what not Blaurock But certainly spoke well when lie said, "Longs Peak is a good best-know- It has Interest at evFor Longs Is turn. ery reckoned third or fourth favorite among the mountaineers of the world and climb. they come from beyond the Seven Seas to ascend it. Longs Peak called "King and of the Scenic West is Rockies the of King and Impressive peculiarly Interesting to climbers because Its upper part has been spilt squarely In two carried oft by and one-haancient glacial action. Its East Face Is sheer for 2,300 feet to Chasm Lake In a gorge that marks the been path of a glacier. This East Face has never climbed but twice In 1922 and Blaurock led the second party. The regular trail zigzags from East Face to West Face and thus gives the climber It Is at once easy and views In all directions. can make the hard. None but the a get to the year visitors a thousand ascent, yet twelve-year-ol- d top, including women and even boys and girls. The view shows Longs Peak from the back the West Face. A night ascent of Longs Peak has become a was Rocky Mountain National park classic. It Louise Edna late made In August of 1915 by the Smith of Aurora, 111., whose life of philanthropic an accomplishment was prematurely cut short in automobile accident. She was a member of the Colorado Mountain club and an ardent mountaineer. She and three women companions, with ValShep Husted as guide, started from Tahosa 11 at Peak of foot at Longs the ley (9,000 feet) half-raiascent The and In a m. fog heavy p. was so unusual that the National Park Service reuse In quested Miss Smith to write the story for of this unique experience Its booklets. The story in mountain climbing follows, in part ; After a short climb we were In another world. The fog was a sea of silvery clouds below us and The from It the mountains rose like islands. There heavens. the lo were bright moon and stars was the sparkle in the air that suggests enchanted e we lands and fairies, naif way to Timber-Lincame upon ground white with snow, which made it seem all the more likely that Christmas pixies Just within the shadows of the pines might dance forth on a moonbeam. there was no snow, but the Above Timber-Lin- e that the clouds far beso brilliant was moonlight low were shining like misty lakes and even the bare mountainside about us looked almost as white as If snoweovered. "At the western edge of Boulder Field there was a new marvel. As we approached Keyhole, right In the center of that curious nick in the rlin of Boulder Field shone the great golden moon. The vast shadow of the peak, made doubly dark by the contrast, made us very silent. When we down Into the emerged from Keyhole and looked Glacier Gorge beyond It wns hard to breathe because of the wonder of it all. The moon was shinino- down into the great gorge a thousand feet below "and it was filled with a silvery glow. The lakes glimmered In the moonlight. Climbing along the narrow ledge, high above this tremendous gorge, was like a dream. Not a breath of air stirred, and the only sound was the crunch of hobnails on rock. There was a supreme hush in the air, as If something tremendous were about to happen. far-of- f Suddenly the sky, which had been the with softest the flushed blue of a moonlit night, amethyst and rose, and the stars loomed large and Intimately near, burning like lamps with lavender, emerald, sapphire and topaz lights. The moon had set and the stars were supreme. "As we made our way along The Narrows the drama of that days dawn proceeded with kaleiwithdoscopic speed. Over the plains, apparently out end, was a sea of billowy clouds, shimmering One mountain with golden and pearly lights. and brought revealed was another after range close by the rosy glow that now filled all the sky. a fresh crown of Every peak, far and near, bore out and Indidistinct stood each new snow and vidual. Arapahoe Peak held the eye long. Torbeaureys Peak and Grays Peak were especially tiful. And far away, a hundred miles to the south, loomed up the summit of Pikes Peak. Such a scene could last hut a short time. And it was well for us, for the moments were ton crowded with sensations to be long borne. Soon the sun burst tip from the ocean of clouds below. On The Summit all was bright and warm. And In the bright sunlight of the new day we wondered whether we had seen a reality or a vision. lf WHEN FIRST THEY SEE LONGS PEAK e valley Is brimmed by peaks TAHOSAS cup-likvie The Sisters, Battle, Meeker in mounting to the sky, oer her, the "King of Scenic West Precipitous from dome to base, With great square head and grim dark face And beauty In his massive grace Longs Peak tops all the rest. Tahosa's love guards Tahosas guests are many, agog oer all the views. Some act like little children, some mind their Ps and Qs, But braggart, timid, cautious, the tenderfoot and freak They one and all stand awed and still The timid with a sudden chill. The daring with a brave mans thrill When first they see Longs Peak. By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN HAT do you think of two men climbing so many high mountains that If the peaks were piled end on end they would reach up more than 103 miles into the sky? Well, thats the feat that Carl Blaurock and Will Bill Ervin of the Colorado Mountain club of Denver have accomplished. It rather looks, doesn't It, as If the two Denver men had it on the e tried to scale Mount giants who Olypmus and get at the gods by piling Ossa on old-tim- relion? The headline says 70 miles which needs some explaining. Its like this: As a matter of fact Blaurock and Ervin have climbed considerably more than 103 miles. Their specific feat here considered Is the climbing of each of the 40 peaks of 14,000 feet and over In Colorado. That means more than 044,000 feet of mountain climbing, or a bit over 103 miles. But they have climbed some of these mountains more than once and in addition they have climbed scores of other high Colorado peaks. Nobody knows what their total Is In feet or miles or mountains. But Blaurock and Ervin did not, of course, climb 14,000 feet of elevation every time they ascended one of these 40 peaks. Its pretty certain, however, that each peak represents at least a mile of vertical climb ; probably some of them two miles. If the average Is put at a mile and a half, they climbed 09 miles. Adding a mile for good measure, it Is evident that Blaurock and Ervin move In the highest circles, If Indeed they are not the original "men higher up. One of the pictures shows Blaurock leading two companions up a steep ascent. Following are the Colorado peaks of 14,000 feet or over scaled by Blaurock and Ervin. Elbert, 14,420; Massive, 14,404; Harvard, 14,399; Sierra Blanca, 14,365; Grays, 14,341; Torreys, 14,336; La Plata, 14,332; Crestone, 14,291; Uncomphngre, Lincoln. 14,276; Castle, 14,259; Evans, 14,259; Quandary, 14,256 ; Longs, 14,255 ; Wilson lit.. 14,250 ; Antero, 14,245; Cameron, 14,233; Schavnno, 14,179; Princeton. 14,177; Yale, 14,172; Bross.T 1.163; San Louis, 14,146; SnefTes, 14,143; Crestone Needles, 14,130; Maroon, 14,126; Old Baldy, 14,125; Pikes, 14,110; Humboldt, 14,100; Kit Carson. 14.100; Win-do14.091 ; Eolus, 14.0S6; Columbia, 14,070; Cule-br14,009; Sunlight, 14,060; Red Cloud, 14,047; Biersfadt, 14,045; Sherman, 14,038; Stewart, Wilson Peak, 14,026; Grizzly, 14.020; Wetter-hor14,017; Sunshine, 14,015; Handies, 14,013; North Maroon, 14,010; Democrat, 14,000; Pyramid, 14,-28- 6; a. 14,-03- 2; n, 14.000. Fellow club members threaten, It Is reported, to call one of them Othello because his occupation's gone and the other Alexander because he sighs for new worlds to conquer. For, alas, Colorado has but 46 of these 14,000-foo- t peaks. However, the rest of the country, including Alaska, can offer seven, so their case Is not by any means hopeless. Washington has Mount Rainier (14,408 feet) one of the most Impressive mountains of earth, big enough to make up by itself all of Mount Rainier National park incidentally, Its summit is a snow cone topping more than a score of great glaciers. California has Fisherman peak, Mount Shasta and Mount Corcoran, all over 14,000 feet, and Mount Whitney (14,501 feet), the highest peak in Continental United States. Alaska has something worth while to offer in Mount St. Elias (18,024 feet) and Mount McKinley (20,300 feet). Mount McKinley Is one of the great mountains of earth and Mount McKinley National park was created to preserve It as a playground and wild animal life exhibit for the American people forever. This great peak has been ascended but twice. From Mount McKinley the trail to the top of the earth goes by way of South America to Asia. South America has at least ten peaks higher than Mount McKinley: Aconcagua (23,080 feet), the loftiest, is on the boundary line between Chile and Argentina. Mount Everest (29,002 feet) In the Himalayas a Is the top of the world. So far it of has defied ascent It repels invaders by snow and ice, Intense cold and altitude. The greatest of these defenses Is altitude, which does strange things to the human body and tries the human mind and soul to the uttermost limit. Everest has Just achieved another victory over the Briton. But the end Is not yet, for the Briton never knows when he has had enough. Arthur Hawthorne Carhart has an Interesting illustrated article about the mountain climbing of Blaurock and Ervin in American Forests and Forest Life, the magazine of the American association, a nation-wid- e organization devoted to the betterment of all phases of the forestry situation In the United States from fire protection to taxation reform .and from forest recreation to education of the public school child. Spenk-lnof the increasing public interest in mountain climbing, he says: No more enlightening evidence of this Interest may be found than In a friendly contest which developed In the Colorado Mountain club a few years ago. I have heard that It started In thlr manner. One day George Barnard, an enthusiast In mountain climbing, had a few days vacation. He quietly donned hobs and dropped out of sight for a few days. A week or so later It was reported that Barnard had climbed Redcloud and Quandary Indo-Chin- p'or-estr- y g Peaks. Two weeks later another rumor, later verified, was broadcast among the members of the Mountain club. Blaurock and Bill Ervin had climbed Bross and Princeton Peaks and, to round things out, were going back Into the Leadvllle National forest to scale Antero, Cameron, Tale and Harvard all peaks over 14,000 feet high. That they kept their word Is now history. But that was the becontest which resulted In ginning of a friendly more 14.000-fomore people climbing peaks, one other, than has probably ever been right afterIn the our nation. Attention was Instantly the case focused on these master climbs of our Rockies. A spirited rivalry took possession of the climbers. First one would lead In the number of peaks scaled, then another. Every vacation of a few scalp to a climbdays would add a new mountainwere productive of er's belt. New achievements exciting tales of the climb the difficulty of getting from one ledge to another, a dangerous slide In loose rocks, or a night marooned under a friendly appetites of the spruce. These tales whetted the peaks hardy climbers. They wanted 14.000-fotough ones and lots of them. A few weeks ago I was hurrying through the crowds on a busy street of Denver. The snippy clack of hobnails Instantly caught my ear. Footgear of business does not make such a sound. Turning, I beheld Carl Blaurock in his climbing outfit. I hailed him. Whore to this time?" "Kit Carson. he replied. "Kit Carson; Is there such a peak?" "Yes. you know we have found that there really For a long time we all Is a Kit Carson Peak. the thought that Kit Carson and Humboldt were same; that there had been a duplication In the naming. But one of us discovered that the big round-toppe- d mountain directly north of Crestone Needles Is Kit Carson; and It Is over 14.000 feet! His eyes fairly sparkled. This Is the last for BUI Ervin and me, he ot ot able-bodie- d I News Notes From All Parts of UTAH Ogden. Theron Robison of Morgan, 20 years of age, is in the Dee hospital with a broken neck but may recover. Robison was injured while diving in the swimming pool at Como Springs resort at Morgan, during an outing of the employees of the MorHe was gan canning company. brought to Ogden this morning for medical treatment. An pho tograph disclosed that his neck was broken at the seventh vertebrae, the base of the neck, according to Dr. Joseph II. Morrell, who attended him. Ogden. Charles H. Barton, bank-s- r and newly elected president of the Ogden union stockyards was named president of the Ogden livestock show for the sixth time at the annual meeting of the directors. Salt Lake City. Vincent Sadler, a Clerk in the ofice of the city auditor was taken into custody by a deputy sheriff on a request from Portland, Ore., that he be held 'for the Oregon authorities on a kidnapping charge. 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