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the reverse. For two days the lad lay on a bed made of wet boughs covered only by a make-shift canvas tent, with two feet of snow packed around his middle. We darned near froze him to death, but at that Ave saved his life, for on the third day he was able to be up and about. It was on this same day that the fog lifted, the sun shone down brightly for the first time on the trip, and late in the afternoon the two missing pack animals limped back into camp. Meantime the mule had found our oatmeal sack so he had fared better than the rest. In the next forty-eight hours we took advantage of every hour of daylight ; climbed the mountains to the west of Fish Lake, made some camp pictures and finished a one-reel production which Avas afterwards knoAvn as "The Film Hunters."
A long four days Avalk back to civilization was the next thing on the program. At the end of the trail Avas the hospital for Kay. The sight of which Avas not half as Avelcome to the cook as the first, green, grassy meadow Avas to that hungry pack string of hay-burners.
Having given up the idea of ever going the lengths of the Cascades Avith a pack outfit, Ave spent the majority of that summer photographing in the Lake Chelan country in Northern Washington.
We started early the next season, waiting four Aveeks in the Olympic Mountains in Western Washington for three days of clear shooting. We climbed the south side of Mt. Hood in Oregon, spent the night on top without blankets, and climbed doAvn the precipitous north side with 75-pound packs on our backs. Our camp fires burned brightly in many different parts of the Cascades that summer. We Avere learning the Avays of the mountains. Our camp cooking Avas better, experience had taught us many tricks of outdoor photography, the financial depression was slacking a bit, and Ave proceeded to have the time of our lives.
In 1917 an automobile company dared me to take one of their cars around the outside road of the United States. It took us ten months to travel the 16,000 miles. In those days
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