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  • 322 NATURE MAGAZINE FOR MAY 193 I on the tortuous ridges when they are clad in the frost-crusted jewels of winter at 30° below zero or, if he prefers, on the more easygoing gaps that lead toward grassy "balds" fringed with stunted trees, hundreds of years old, whose mossy, lichen-clothed flanks are within reach of a man's hand. Here is an abundance of fuel for his campfire in milder weather; prismatic dawns above the jade islands of the fog-lashed peaks and burning sunsets aswirl in infernos of mauve to warm his soul. A treachery of ice-fog may drift in upon him to bewilder and confound his going betimes, for Nature here is at her mightiest—and at her heights of whimsicality. An excited pulsebeat awaits the hiker who catches his first glimpse of Spring's mantle of flame azalea shimmering through old Smoky's blue mystery, while the drowsy tinkle of sheepbells may lull him to sleep beside his sputtering campfire miles apart from the disturbing turmoil of bustling cities. The jagged promontories of the Sawtooth Mountains toward the east are sure to play havoc with his trousers while he inches along on knife-like edges of rock above plunges two thousand feet deep. On the western slopes of this gigantic succession of peaks he has more adequate advantages OLD AS THE GRAND CANYON Even the rocks JAMES E. THOMPSON the streams are worn smooth as silk by the endless grinding of erosion JAMI-S [■:. THOMPSON WHERE PEACEFUL MOUNTAIN FARMS DOT THE VALLEYS FRAMED BY FORESTED HILLS And their owners, cut off from the world for centuries, ask only to be left alone in their auiet coves to work out their destinies
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