2 country. How gladly I would cross the mountains to join you all for a summer if I could get away. But much of my old freedom
is now lost though I run away right or wrong at times. Last summer I spent a few summer months in Washington Terr studying
the grand forests of Puget Sound then climbed to the summit of Mt Rainier about 15000 feet high over many miles of wildly
shattered crevassed glaciers. Some twenty glaciers flow down the flanks of this grand icy cone most of them reaching the forests
ere they melt give place to roaring turbid torrents. This summer I made yet another visit to my old Yosemite home out over
the mountains at the head of the Tuolumne River. I was accompanied by one of the editors of the Century had a