Show A SWEEPING VIEW this the ginter ot of mount shasta la in au gust late in the afternoon me c selected a lccy place near a bank ot of snow at an all elevation of 0 about feet am arid gathering a few logs ot of dead pints pines ve me matte made it a lousing longing lire fire and at nightfall unrolled our heavy california blankets sleeping nearer the flat stars chitti llian I 1 ever had before it was a clear cold night tile the water froze nearly an inch thick 1 and I it at the next vining when nhen we beean it our ascent of the crater tho the elie compter was 25 dog deg fahr fahrenheit en licit we rode our boises for nil ilia leour bacur until we carue carlic to elan foot fool of 0 the ash rone cone and by 8 15 bere iere ere on the summit 0 of tho the crater tile the bew jai in the clear atmosphere wits was indeed cl a uld one lir far to the t was tile the lyou lanee iange arid and knob arid and to this the jagged saw toothed planar peak s of thi the salmon mountains fifty inkles was waa the snow enow clad Voli solitary tary ina sells bens peak feet hilgh hile klamath lakes and tile thu lava bedi tile seat scat ot of the lite late l ite war lay to 10 tile the north merth eastE ard the scene wai wag it a ald one ite mathin the great creat crater whose bairow edge la Is formed of a sharp harp jagged peaks anti and pinnacles broad almost 11 fields extended f from aiom tile edge dom down n tor for a thousand feet at tile the bottom mere two bloz frozen n lakes title like illinois of cl mf the crater tas aa I 1 extinct no signs of steam or of 0 recent eruption meeting tile eye we wore were told to let that on the summit cit f the cone there la Is a liot bot sloam vent the last dying ernberg of pdt pat pa t Vol volcanic earile action NIP mr sissons malle knitting a traveler to tha ilia sur summit raillie rail lit mas vi once br be tile th night there the re 1 let and had to spend and saved the lives of lit himself and ahli ill companion by lying close to tile the tei through 1 the up v vent ent the steam snow on their loscent they pik down over tile hie snow fit nelds ids of the summit to th ahr lava budi belli below the outlet of if the crater or point of low rat at the last ei 0 hotl alet a on oil small all llla enaes ill the western side wh rp 91 air blaek and alle title popular lo pular tlona of JIM verk vcr o oi served So I 1 leric j |