PRECIPICE-WALLED GORGES

DISTINGUISHED feature of the park is its profusion of cliff-cradled, glacier-watered valleys unexcelled for wildness and the glory of their flowers. Here grandeur and romantic beauty compete.

These valleys lie in two groups, one north, the other south of Longs Peak, in the angles if the main range; the northern group called the Wild Garden, the southern group called the Wild Basin.

There are few spots, for instance, so impressively beautiful as Loch Vale, with its three shelved lakes lying three thousand feet sheer below Taylor's Peak. Adjoining is Glacier Gorge at the foot of the precipitous north slope of Longs Peak, holding in rocky embrace its own group of three lakelets.

The Wild Basin, with its wealth of lake and precipice, still remains unexploited and known to few.

THE CHISELED WESTERN WALL OF LOCH VALE Photograph by John King Sherman

CHASM LAKE AND LONGS PEAK Photograph by John King Sherman

FEW MOUNTAIN GORGES ARE SO IMPRESSIVELY BEAUTIFUL AS LOCH VALE

LOOKING INTO THE PARK FROM THE TWIN SISTERS

LATE AFTERNOON YIELDS GOOD CATCHES

LONGS PEAK, FROM A SMALL LAKE AT THE ENTRANCE TO GLACIER GORGE, SHOWING ITS PRECIPITOUS WESTERN SIDE Photograph by Agnes W. Vaille

ICE FLOES BREAKING FROM THE HALLETT GLACIER Photograph by J. Burns

ICEBERG LAKE LIES 2,000 FEET BELOW TRAIL RIDGE Photograph by H. T. Cowling

TO KNOW THEM IN THE INTIMACY OF THEIR BARE SUMMITS IS TO TURN AN UNFORGETTABLE PAGE IN THE BOOK OF EXPERIENCE Looking from Flattop across the Tyndall Glacier Gorge to the windy summit of Hallett Peak Photograph by H. T. Cowling

MIDWAY OF THE RANGE, LONGS PEAK REARS HIS STATELY, SQUARE-CROWNED HEAD; A VERITABLE KING OF MOUNTAIN CALMLY OVERLOOKING ALL HIS REALM This is the very heart of the Rockies; few photographs so fully express the spirit of the Snowy Range