150 Years 1872-1886 The Dalles THE DECADES OF HISTORY PART TWO OF THE DALLES CHRONICLE'S TEN-PART SERIES. March 30, 2007 page 5 DANGEROUS CHASMS ON MOUNT HOOD TURN LOCAL CLIMBERS BACK RETURNED FROM THE MOUNTAINS - The party who we mentioned two weeks ago as having started out on a trip to the mountains, composed of Messrs. E.B. McFarland, Rev. W.R. Butcher, J.P. Booth and son, Frank McFarland and two reverend gentlemen from Portland, returned during the week, well pleased with their mountain experience. Their course was around the north side of Mount Hood and for the first eight days out it rained on them almost constantly, but by perseverance they managed to circumnavigate the great snow-capped mount. When they arrived on the south-east side, they made an attempt to reach the top, but after a number of slight accidents - one of which came very near letting one of the reverend gentlemen slide into a chasm several hundred feet deep, the party concluded they had gone up far enough, which their instrument designated as eleven thousand five hundred feet. Mr. E.B. McFarland, who was one of a party that successfully made the ascent last summer, acted as guide to the party, and was willing to continue on up, but as the rest of the company had lost their tum-tums and a cloud of fog was gathering under them, they thought it best to retire. Mr. McFarland thinks they were within about one thousand feet of the top. At this point they found the flag and ictas left by the last Portland party who it seems told the Portland newspaper men that they were on top. Our party returned much improved in health and experience. August 22, 1874. Incoming and Outgoing messages protected by Trend Micro PC-cillin program