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Show CI.IMIUXll MOI.'NT HOOD, An excellent waron road leads from tho Wlllanielt valley to within live lullea of the summit of Mount Hood. To reach tho top Involves much toll some climbing mid mi aiunll iimount of danger. Iicsplte these olistaeb-a, the peak hns been naceuded by thousands of persons, and only one fatal accident hi making the descent lias been recorded. re-corded. That occurred two yeara ago. Although the air la extremely rare and the temperature low, a tiuniber of iM-r-anus have passed the night ou the topmost crest. rrom the summit the scene Is one of ludescrll.able grandeur and beauty. Here you are lifted above the clouds -so far owny that the world lies remote beneath tho eye; cities ami towns shrink Into liislgnlilnince. Vast Indeed hi the pnmiraiiia outspread tw view. Forests, uiouiitiiliis, plains, valleys and atrenma grow Imletliilte nml liiiaiibsttin-tlnl liiiaiibsttin-tlnl llko a siibdiie.l picture Moating In the sky. An nll-pervnd.ng sense of the unreal takes posscsslo i of the soul. Above the ethereal strata of the clouds you call gaze down upon .'hem. The cloud effects tire wonderful. Looking lu nil directions, you fancy your eyes nre ranging over a vast, shoreless ocean. Vet there la n w ildly tumbled and tossed aspect that the sen. even when shaken by tho most furious tempest, does not assume. While the b'"".less stretch of clouds remind you of the Velielo. lit sea, .Vet the IP'Ocy masses seem fa.' loo light and airy for the llmllle.-s waters of Hie I'aellle with lis far-reaching waste of waters. -J. Mayne Italllmore. Ill Mullet Mugs-line. |