To the left are great andesite crowns on the mountain tops.

Here also are more glacially polished masses and cliffs of granite, clearly indicating great glacial activity in the upper part of this canyon.

The trail is ticklish in a few places, with steps up and down which our horses take gingerly, but nothing which need excite an extra heart-beat to one used to mountain trails.
In less than half an hour we are at Deer Park Springs, drinking its pleasant waters, and while we still have six and a half miles to go to the Tavern it is over easy and ordinary road, and therefore our pleasant trip is practically at an end.
* * * * * TO ELLIS PEAK Homewood is the natural starting point for Ellis Peak (8745 feet) as the trail practically leaves the Lake high-road at that point, and strikes directly upon the mountain slope.

Hundreds make the trip on foot and it is by no means an arduous task, but many prefer to go horse-back or burro-back.

In its upward beginnings the trail follows the course of an old logging chute for a distance of some two miles, the lake terminus of which is now buried in a nursery of white fir and masses of white lilac.