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The ain down

the ridge Following the serpentine winding of the right of way, the

general er was able to run the car far around the mountain, and it

stopped opposite the southern face, which rose across the broad cañon

When the party in the car got their glasses fixed, the little co like marionettes

up the base of Pilot

The south face of the mountain, sheer for nearly a thousand feet, is

broken by narrow ledges that make an ascent possible, and not until the

peak passes the timent upon that

side Swept by the winds from the Spanish Sinks, the vertical reaches

above the base usually offer no obstruction to a rapid clih

except perhaps by early prospectors, the arête had never been scaled

Glover, however, in locating, had covered every stretch of the 's poles and brackets, like

banderillas stung into the tough hide of a bull, circled Pilot fro the ascent; below theuished the roadmaster and the injured superintendent

Stripped to the belt and lashed in the party rope, the leader, gaunt

and sinewy, stretched like an earthwor, retreating, his spiked feet

settling warily into fresh holes below, his sensitive hands spreading

like feelers high over the sranite for new holds above Slowly,

always, and with the deliberate reserve that quieted with confidence