Evening Star Newspaper, April 17, 1926, Page 23

REAL TORTURES OF TREK IN ALASKA SHOWN Newspaper Man Racing to Point Barrow Describes Hardships of Journey. BY WILLIAM C. LYON. By Wircless to The Stu CANDLE, two weeks since munication with the outs have experienced every fleulty and obstacle to can come to the Winte Alaska_except the blizzard some 700 miles ahead almost due north ir Circle, there is_every lieve that we will not During these last have literally been throu high water ith a conside tion of the latter to delay u We lef: late, our list source of communication 5 sk on the morning of March 31 desting that day was Kal ich marked the end of the tr & the Yukon River. As had been the ca For com- April 17 ve were last in 1l a ble por e for several ! rtered melt- rface of the broke gh with | had become | rather accustomed of tugging the big | heavy sleds through the snow back | on the trail. H Snow Turning to Slush. We reached Kaltag late In the after-| noon after a strenuous day. The tem-| perature remained above freezing and | the snow continued to melt. At Kal- tag we found it necessary to remain over a day because of the soft trail. | The second day we started across the | portage, headed by Unalakleet, the snow was about three feet deep and | had almost no on it, even at § o'clock in the morning, a time when 1t should be frozen if it ever wa That day proved the hard We made only 10 mil cabin in the afternoor stayed for the night. On this da personal difficulties beg: hich have! lasted consistently since my feet went bad. Traveling in th try neces- sitates the wearing of 1 sins when it is cold and mukluks, or water boots, when it is thawing and wet these types or footgear such as we are accustomed to wea in the States. 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ESTATE. it veritably 'is the bunk for the out- side. { My feet had graduelly become more tender and achy and on this hard i explainable manner to hang a big toe under the of the bre -throughs and gave it a wrench which pulled it out of joint in such a way that it amounted virtually {to a broken bone. The first-aid kit was bag and lashed in the rest of the cargo. it out until we r e 1 attempted to remove the damaged member. | Move Far From Wise, That was by no means a wise move. packed in a of the cabin T reached the stage where | T could no longer mush with the team. {1 put on snow shoes and made the } final two miles under agonizing difti- | culties. After T doctored and band- aged the toe at the shelter cabin, I | attempted to mush on. We had gone less than a quarter of a mile, with the sled continuously breaking through the snow to the ground and the dogs unalie to arag it out, when we gave air and took to the shelter abin for the night. We were out next morning an hour before daylight tind a fairly i1 miles b: wehed o second stopped and ha akfast. 1rom time on the snow began to ¢ ar rapidly and in the course day we traveled across the tundra ith only a ribbon of a trail of snow troubles began again a slough across which the trail 1 under normal conditions on the ice The ice was gone re pond o 1 a detour and dra vorked out d the sled across day’s travel T managad in some un-| ust of the snow in one | THE E\'E‘.\'IN(;. 'STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1926. the bare tundra for a distance of three miles to cross what would have | normal weather. Make 40 Miles in Day. ched Old Woman Mountain We had made 40 miles as the day's travel. It was the first really pectable d el we had accomplished in more than week. We blankets of the cabin and slept the sleep of the just for a long night. The next morning was Easter Sunday. 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