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��California o''!!ers much to the motorist for his pleasure in touring, much that is impossible of duplication elsewhere; but her sister States, Oregon, Washington and Idaho, also hold for him a wealth of natural beauty. Idaho has the Snake River, with its canyon of igneous rock, and the Saw Tooth Mountains; Washing- ton has mountains and vast stretches of virgin forests of Douglas fir, while Ore- gon comes to the front with one particu- larly excellent example of Nature's han- dicraft, which is known as the Crater National Reserve. Herein lies the mys- terious and beautiful Crater Lake.

We had read much about Crater Lake, and the stories and descriptions of the place that reached our ears fired thi' imagination to a point of acuteness that left us practically no alternative but to see it ourselves. For this reason a trip to the Lake was planned and executed.

Sacramento was reached by boat. The trip north through Redding, Shasta Springs to the State line, which was

���When Nature smokes.

��crossed at Ager, is ever a beautiful one, and has been enjoyed by many Califor-

��nia motorists for years. The roads in the main are smooth enough to permit of comfortable travel at a good pace; and surely the tourist could wish for a no more inspiring sight than is here offered hy Nature. For miles, the snow-steeped cone of Mount Shasta glistens in the warm sunlight, looms gray and sombre in the early morning hours, or melts into the most wonderful old rose shades and shadows as the evening settles down, and cool breezes sweep down the canyons and gulches.

We made Redding our first night's con- trol; Shasta Springs, which was reached by way of Kennett, the second. Thus far had we traveled 244 miles. On the third day out of Sacramento, we crossed the Oregon line, and passed through a broad plateau country, where the roads are rocky, twisting and very poorly surfaced — to Klamath Springs. Arriving here in the evening added 72 miles more to the trip.

From Klamath Hot Springs to Harri-

���Tlie pleasiriii vista of Pelican Bay.

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