Sierra Club Bulletin

SIERRA CLUB BULLETIN, VOL. IX

CONTENTS

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BRYCE, JAMES

CHURCH, J. E., JR.
COLBY, WM. E.

First Across the Sierra Nevada

The Kern River Outing of 1912

Butterflies of the Mountain Summits

Collecting Insects of the High Mountains

Ski Running: An Impression

LE CONTE, J. N.

National Parks-The Need of the Future

Lake Tahoe in Winter

Milestone Mountain and a New Kings-Kern Pass

Edward Taylor Parsons: An Appreciation

EMERSON, ELLEN T........ Through the Tuolumne Cañon
GRINNELL, FORDYCE, JR.

HUBER, W. L.

JEPSON, WILLIS LINN

..A Butterfly of the High Sierra Nevada-Behr's
Alpine Sulphur

JOHNSTONE, FREDERIC BRUCE

and ELSIE LEALE

KELLOGG, VERNON

KING, HAZEL

The North Palisade Glacier

.A Lightning-Struck Tree in Kern Cañon

165

The Soda Springs Property in the Tuolumne

Meadows

Scrambles About Yosemite (Sketch Map of

Tenaya Cañon)

MATTHES, FRANCOIS E. ..... Little Studies in the Yosemite Valley. IV. EI

Studies in the Sierra: I. Mountain Sculpture... 225

......The Mountaineers' Winter Outing on Mt. Rainier 81

PARSONS, MARION RANDALL.. Through the Olympics With the Mountaineers... 149

Pioneering in the Southern Selkirks

PHOUTRIDES, ARISTIDES E. Mt. Parnassus

..

POPE, BERTHA GORHAM ....With the Sierra Club in 1914

The Discovery of the Nest and Eggs of the Cali-

WHITING, CHARLES GOODRICH Blue Hills

The 1913 Outing to the Kings River Cañon.....

......Muir Lodge in the Sierra Madre Mountains.... 170

Indian Henry's Hunting Ground, Rainier Na-

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Temple Crag (13,016 ft.), Big Pine Creek, 2,000 ft. Cliffs,

North Palisade (14,254 ft.) in the distance.

Notch in Big Arroyo Wall at head of Deer Creek.

The Kaweah Group from Milestone Basin.....

Milestone and Vertical Walls of Cirque on Kings-Kern Divide

Narrow Lake in Cañon on Kings River Side of New Pass...

Milestone Viewed from the Bow Is a Jagged Backbone......

VII. Milestone from the Unnamed Peak on the Western Wall of

the Bow

V.

VI.

VIII. The Summit of Milestone Overhangs on Almost all Sides.....

IX. Sculptured Cliffs in Tehipite Valley-Another California Yo-

semite to be Visited by the Club in 1913...

Moraine Lake, a Shining Gem Cut with Perfect Symmetry..

The Eight and One-half Pound Trout..

18

Moraine Lake, Green Fringed Like a Meadow.

Surrounded by Sharp-Chiseled Peaks

18

XIV. The Weather-Beaten Faces of Peaks Towering Above the

Big Arroyo

19

XV. The Big Arroyo with Its Granite Walls Falling Sheer Away

Beneath Us .

19

XVI.

Columbine Lake and Lost Cañon from Base of Sawtooth..

XVII. A Storm Gathered Over the Kern Cañon..

20

21

XVIII.

Mount Whitney (14,502 ft.) from the Trail to Its Summit..

XIX. The Steep Snow-Slide at Army Pass...

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XXI.

Part of the Pack-Train on the Trail We Cut at Army Pass...

XX. Looking Back at Army Pass Across Upper Cottonwood Lake..

Crag Ericsson from Harrison Pass

23

24

25

Ericsson and Deerhorn

25

XXVI. The Tuolumne Meadows from Lambert's Dome, Showing the

Soda Springs Property Enclosed in White Lines.......

XXVII. View Northeast from Milestone-Table Mountain Showing on

XXVIII. Tehipite Dome and Valley to be Visited by the Club in 1913..

XXIX. North Palisade Glacier, one of the Largest of the Residual

49

Glaciers of the Sierra

54

XXX. Wit-sa-nap, the Indian Name for Convict Lake, near Bishop,

Inyo County

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XXXIV. Mt. Rainier National Park, Nisqually Valley from the Glacier 82

Paradise Valley, Mt. Rainier National Park, Reese Camp and

Paradise Valley, Mt. Rainier National Park. Forest Ranger's

New Cabin at Camp of the Clouds, Elevation 5,600 Feet.. 83

Paradise Valley, Mt. Rainier National Park. Camp of the

Clouds and Tatoosh Range

Mountain Butterflies

Mt. Rainier National Park.

Mt. Rainier in Winter.

Nevada Falls and Eagle Peak...

Snow-Covered Road to the Glacier

The Old Sierra Club Camp of 1905

Was in Grove on the Left....

XXXIX. Behr's Alpine Sulphur

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99

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Fall River Falls, Butte County, California. The Cañon of

the Middle Fork of the Feather River...

View in (North) Calaveras Grove of Big Trees (Sequoia

washingtoniana), John and Joseph Le Conte Trees....... 110

XLII. "Pioneer's Cabin" Tree (Sequoia washingtoniana), Base Tun-

View in (North) Calaveras Grove of Big Trees (Sequoia wash-

ingtoniana). "Mother of the Forest" Tree in Distance... 110

XLIV. View in (North) Calaveras Grove of Big Trees....

XLV. Log from Base of Big Tree (Sequoia washingtoniana), Felled

in 1854, (North) Calaveras Grove

The Cabin Which He Built

and in Which He Lived Twenty-Five Years..

XLVII. The Proposed Rocky Mountain National Park..

XLVIII. Tehipite Valley, Middle Fork of Kings River....

View Down Tenaya Cañon from Top of Upper Fall

View Down Over the Lower Part of Tenaya Cañon, Showing

Looking Down Through Lower Entrance to Box Cañon..

The Fall in the Box Cañon, Showing Wedged Boulder.

LIII. Upper End of Tenaya Cañon, Showing Route Past Upper Fall. 130

LIV. Ascending the East Slope of Tenaya Cañon

132

LVI.

Looking Down from Grouse Valley

133

LVII. Tehipite Dome, 3,600 Feet

LVIII. Lake Tenaya, Showing Domes Glaciated by Overflow from

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Devil's Crags from Palisade Creek

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LXXVI. Interior of Muir Lodge, 1913

LXXVII. Charley Tuck, Kern River. Outing, 1912

LXXVIII. Photograph of the Mt. Tamalpais Fire, 1913

LXXIX. Devil's Crags from the South.

Left of Summit

........

Devil's Crags in Foreground-Palisades in Distance

LXXX. Middle Palisade from Observation Peak

LXXXI. Edward Taylor Parsons

Climb Was Made up Crack to

Tuolumne Soda Springs Property, Site of the Proposed Par-

sons Memorial Lodge and Sierra Club Camp for 1915.... 224

LXXXVI. Mt. Bruce and Upper Fields of the Starbird Glacier

LXXXVII. Ice Cascade on Jumbo Glacier

LXXXX. Mt. Lyell and Mt. McClure from the Head of Lyell Fork

Cañon

LXXXXI. Summit of Mt. Lyell, 13,090 Feet

LXXXXII. Lower Tuolumne Meadows, Cathedral Range in Background. 252

LXXXXIII. Banner Peak from Rush Creek
253

Snow Bridge near Head of North Fork of the San Joaquin. 253

LXXXXIV. The Grand Cañon of the Tuolumne-Sliding Down Glaciated

Granite. The Largest of the Waterwheels..

At the Waterwheel Falls. Fording the Tuolumne.

Falls of Cathedral Creek, Tuolumne Cañon

Waterwheel Falls, Tuolumne Cañon

C. In the Lower Part of Tuolumne Cañon, Looking East Toward

Huge Rocks Perched on the Ice of North Palisade Glacier... 263

CIV. A Typical Winter Day at Tallac

....

272

Ski Running in the Sierra

272

CV. Mountain Hemlocks in Winter-A Ski Runner's Paradise on

Rubicon Peak

273

CVI.

Snow Cornice Above Brockway

274

CVII.

Castellated Rock on Rim of Lake Tahoe Above Brockway... 275

CVIII. Delphi, the Sacred District-Fountain of Castalia in the

Gorge at the Right

278

CIX. Delphi, the Treasury of the Athenians

279

.........

CX. Climbing Mt. Parnassus, April 24, 1914-Nearing the Summit 280

Demos, the Guide

280

CXI. The summit of Mt. Parnassus, 8,070 Feet

281

CXII. The Village of Arachova on the Slopes of Parnassus.

Panorama from Summit of Cathedral Peak-Cathedral Peak

and Mt. Hoffmann

Echo Peak and Columbia Finger

292

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