Show SCENIC its playgrounds OF AMERICA S by G st eternal ice THE ITE amazing variety of tile the natural wonders appearing in north america Is nowhere more strikingly displayed than to in our contrasting national resources of perpetual ice and apparently inexhaustible bolling water nater millions of AmerI americans caris know of old Falth fal geyser firehole rire Fire hola hole lake ituau ing mountain the frying ilan ian tile ilia minute stan man and ami other yellowstone park wonders which contribute tons tolls 0 f boiling water to the missouri ouri river system every day of the year in delightful contempt cou tempt of old stan man weather and his winter rampages thousands or of I 1 1923 and 1920 visitors to tile the paric also I 1 know now of the new imperial geyser a spirited debutante of the summer of I 1 which twice daily spouts to a height of feet or more core from two to eight thousand tuna tolls of water this volume which involves a continuous two hour eruption would water a city of perhaps people but very few people have stopped to contrast this national legacy of gur or 1 4 W 4 the carbon glacier gle hiss anil and steam with an equally interesting te phenomenon of perpetual tee leu maites which defy the summers hear waves jut just as as the tha geysers face tile prophecy of a long hard winter very few americans realize that there are acres and acres of perpetual tee ice within the united stites states alone at less than halt half the elev elevation atlon of 0 the famous bolling boll ln water basin tar far lower than denver deliver reno the block black hills summits ot or the tha grand canyon cannon rim and even lower than manar appalachian uplands of the atlantic seaboard I 1 idill more amazing perhaps Is the met fact that thai the lowest but least know n tee ice bank lles lies within 55 53 miles by air or 75 by auto of a city of half a million people and that only an easy hike of less thin than two to miles Is beetled to reach the tha foot cliff of immemorial tee ice front from the auto road this lowest american tee ice held field Is ls the carbon glacier dincler elevation 3 daw ah feel on the north side 0 of mount lla lia iuler lliter in the state of washington like some of the immense prehistoric tee ice teeth of glacier rational park which ate out deep box shaped cliff walled valleys only to melt away completely in their depths the carbon glacier although in general a part of the octo pus nus shaped tee fee which reaches practically to the summit of tile the peak has in fact act gnawed so deeply into Us its bed that a towering precipice wall ft all of its own on making now completely isolates isolate it from the summit glacier by contrast its southern slope rival the better known nis ts qually glacier Bl acler which finally dies a dirty ignominious death at tow feet amid the stares of bus bundled humanity en route to paradise valley begins on the all summit amit craters rim and loses two full tittles miles of elevation before its final boulder burled buried and almost shamefaced shame faced wilting there Is defiance and grandeur rather than apology however in the imposing precipice of ice with which the do dogged ged old carbon glacier makes its last bow after fighting its way v ay GW GOO feet low lower er mount rainier pronounced renear re near Is reached by highway from seattle or I 1 iacoma acoma wash usually b nie lie long lon mire paradise valley route rouie which also permits rail travel abar as far as ashford Ash tord via the milwaukee roid road the carbon glacier Is eully easily eu lly accessible in dry weather only and via fairfax instead of ashford Is ached by tile the northern pacific rall railway way but inquiry should bo be made regarding regard ln automobile transportation the othe 13 15 allies travelers dearing des rIng to go on a glacier with alth safety and information aa a well ns as thrills will flud bud guide parties available by toot foot at Va paradise radIse valley valle v rainier and by horse and foot coot la in glacier national sat lonal park montana 4 ino kwatera X pap UJ U igloo J |