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 SACRAMENTO, SHASTA, LAKE TAHOE 169 the Trinity Range. On the northeastern and eastern face are living glaciers, grinding slowly downward upon their ponderous mission. The descent to Nowona or Strawberry Valley is expedited by sliding the snowy chutes, with the alpenstock as a rudder. At Sisson there is a great hatchery from whose 53 ponds daily distribution of trout and salmon is made to the streams of the State. At Weed, above Sisson, a new line of the Southern Pa- cific turns off from the main route to the north, and con- tinues beyond Lower Klamath Lake to Klamath Falls and Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon. Crater Lake National Park (Oregon) is reached from the Falls by steamer and stage. Ager, on the main line, is the station for Beswick and Klamath Hot Springs (20 m. by automobile stage, summer only, or by carriage if the hotel is advised in advance). The mud and sulphur baths of this resort are highly re- garded; likewise the fishing and hunting on the Klamath River. Sacramento to Lake Tahoe. The Wishbone Automobile Route has its head at Sacramento. The extremity of each flange touches Lake Tahoe. The lower road follows the general direction of the Southern Pacific motor railway, Sacramento Folsom Placerville (45 m.), and continues from Placerville over the turn- pike among scenes of famous staging and mining days. It crosses the turbulent South Fork of