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2023.055.3.0231Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of Mount Hood, a forest is in the foreground. Above the image "T189 (Star)" is printed, below the image "W13635T Majestic mount Hood Rising 12,000 Feet in Solitary Splender, Oregon." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company Copyright. H. C. White Co. Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
13635
MAJESTIC MOUNT HOOD RISING 12,000 FEET IN SOLITARY SPLENDOR, OREGON
Behold Mount Hood, the pride of Oregon! It is in the northwestern part of the state, about sixty miles east of Portland and twenty-five miles south of the Columbia River.
An active volcano as recently as 1846, the present summit of the mountain is the irregular north rim of a crater that once existed in a complete circle to the south. In course of time, the south, east and west portions of this rim disappeared, leaving the peak which we see before us. This is one of the very few snow-capped peaks in the world that stands alone.
The Elliot Glacier, the most important one on the mountain, is fed by avalanches which fall down the northeastern face, 2,000 feet high. Its gently sloping channel is bounded on each side by large border moraines which hold it up for some distance and its end pitches over into a deep canyon. The movement of the Elliot Glacier is nearly fifty feet a year.
The ordinary perils of mountain climbing are present on Moutn Hood, but no excess of them. Still, mountains and glaciers, as they are beings of great majesty, must be treated with due humility and respect.
The Fourth of July has been celebrated repeatedly by a display of red fire on the summit of Mount Hood, from which it was clearly seen at Portland. Dr. W. G. Steel, in his "The Mountains of Oregon," describes the toilsome ascent with a hundred pounds of red fire on the occasion of the first successful illumination, July 4, 1887. The Mazamas, an Alpine Club of Portland, have done much to make the mountain scenery of the region better known.
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