Mazama Volume 2, nos. 3-4; A record of mountaineering in the Pacific Northwest

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...W. D. Lyman Whitman College Our great king mountain, Rainier-Tacoma, (I use Rainier out of deference to supposed geographical authority and Tacoma by reason of personal preference based upon beauty and fitness) presents many aspects to its reverent observer. To those who beheld it on that long-to-be-remembered Sunday at Longmire's Springs, when, after a day and a night of rain, the storm clouds burst asunder and parted like a veil, revealing the stupendous ramparts of ice and towers of rock "which on their restless fronts bore stars," the great peak presented an aspect of majesty and mystery sufficient to awe the pigmy human spectator into silence and to suggest such infinite possibilities of elemental power as to make human imagination recoil from any attempt at comprehension or...