It is almost completely surrounded by granite walls
and peaks which reach more than a mile and a half into the air.
The region back from the lake is practically unknown. A small part of it
has never been touched by the Geological Survey, and, in one or two
instances, we were able to check up errors on our maps. Thus, a lake
shown on our map as belonging at the head of McAllister Creek really
belongs at the head of Rainbow Creek, while McAllister Lake is not shown
at all. Mr. Coulter, a forester who was with us for a time, last year
discovered three lakes at the head of Rainbow Creek which have never
been mapped, and, so far as could be learned, had never been seen by a
white man before. Yet Lake Chelan itself is well known in the Northwest.
It is easily reached, its gateway being the famous Wenatchee Valley,
celebrated for its apples.
It was from Chelan that we were to make our start. Long before we
arrived, Dan Devore and the packers were getting the outfit ready.
[Illustration: _Sitting Bull Mountain, Lake Chelan_]
Yet the first glimpse of Chelan was not attractive.
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