he government before the
establishment of the Forest Reserve.

[Footnote 4: For some years, Congress and the Interior
Department spelled it "Ranier"! A well-known Congressman
from Seattle corrected their spelling of the name of the
forgotten admiral, and it has since been officially
"Rainier National Park."]

[Illustration: Washington Torrents, on Paradise River; a series of
falls a mile in length, seen from the new road to Paradise and still
better from the pony trail.]

[Illustration: Portion of Paradise Park and the Tatoosh Range.]

The Longmire road, rough as it was, long remained the best route; but
in 1903 the Mountain found a tireless friend in the late Francis W.
Cushman, representative from this State, who persuaded Congress to
authorize the survey and construction of a better highway. Work was
not begun, however, until 1906. The {p.061} yearly appropriations
have been small, and total only $240,000 for surveys, construction and
maintenance, to the end of the last session.

[Illustration {p.060}: View from north side of the Tatoosh. 1. Crater
Peak. 2. South Peak, or Peak Success. 3. Nisqually Glacier, with
feeders. 4. Gibraltar Rock. 5. Camp Muir, on Cowlitz Cleaver. 6.
Cathedral Rocks. 7. Little Tahoma. 8. Paradise Glacier. 9. Alta Vista.
10. Camp of the Clouds. 11. Reese's Camp. 12. Sluiskin Falls. 13.
Paradise River and Valley. 14. Mazama Ridge. 15. Reflection Lake. 16.
Van Trump Glacier. 17. Von Trump Park. 18. Kautz Glacier. 19.
Pyramid Peak. 20. Tahoma Glaciers. 21. Indian Henry's. Dotted line
shows South-side route to the summit.]

[Illustration: Ice Bridge, Stevens Glacier.]

[Illustration: Mountain Sports. Tug of War between teams picked from
the feminine contingent of the Mountaineers.]

The road, as now open to Paradise valley, is a monument to the
engineering skill of Mr. Eugene Ricksecker, United States Assistant
Engineer, in local charge of the work. Over its even floor you go from
the west boundary of the Forest Reserve up the north bank of the
Nisqually river, as far as the foot of its glacier. Crossing on the
bridge here, you climb up and up, around the face of a bluff known as
Gap Point, where a step over the retaining wall would mean a sheer
drop of a thousand feet into the river below. Thus you wind over to
the Paradise river and famous Narada Falls, switch back up the side of
the deep Paradise canyon to the beau