July-August 1879, Alaska Trip Image 30

• Main Author: Muir, John
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholarly Commons 1879
• Subjects: John Muir; journals; drawings; writings; travel; journaling; naturalist; Great Glacier; glacier; Alaska
• Online Access: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/1410; https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmj-all/article/2409/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg

Not a track is visible of bird or beast or man. Snow retains for a time at least the lightest track, even those of mice; the next best surface is fine dust in a thin stratum on a smooth surface; next, fine sand; but here is the most untrackable portion of the earth’s surface I ever saw on mountain o...