English: Identifier: outing29newy

Title: Outing Year: 1885 (1880s) Authors: Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel Publisher: [New York : Outing Pub. Co.] Contributing Library: Tisch Library Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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Text Appearing Before Image: by E. Burton Holmes. WHERE OTHER WHEELS WOULD FAIL. 49° OUTING FOR FEBRUARY.

Text Appearing After Image: Photo by Haynes. ON MINERVA TERRACE, YELLOWSTONE PARK. On this trip the Main Divide of theRocky Mountains was crossed and re-crossed for the first time in history by abody of armed cyclists. Going, the sum-mit was crossed near Mullan Pass, andreturning, by way of the old MullanStage Road, much traveled before theN. P. Rail Road, but now little morethan a mere trail, full of rocks and ruts.We covered 797 miles in 126 hours ofactual traveling, averaging six and aquarter miles per hour. Our best ridewas made on September third, when werode seventy-two miles in eight three-quarter hours. Our poorest ride wasmade the day we returned, coveringforty miles in ten hours, through rain,mud, water and snow. Three days after our return to FortMissoula, we left again to join the troopson a practice march up the Bitter RootValley. The morning after the day wejoined the command, the Bicycle Corpsleft camp at 7:35, and as we rode along,cyclists were fallen out at intervals ofabout a mile, with instruc

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