It is almost circular in form, with eight trees in the center, and twenty-three on the outer rim, which is over a hundred feet in circumference.

Seldom does one see so interesting a group of trees anywhere, even when planted, and these, of course, are of native growth.
The summit itself is of broken and shattered granite, which has allowed a scraggly mountain pine to take root and grow close to the U.S.Geological Survey monument.

A fierce gale was blowing from the west, and turning toward the tree-clad slopes of the east, we stood in the wind, with the everlasting blue above and the glorious and never-failing green beneath.

Unconsciously there sprang to my lips Joaquin Miller's lines: And ever and ever His boundless blue, And ever and ever His green, green sod, And ever and ever between the two Walk the wonderful winds of God.
Braving the wind and looking over the steep precipice to the west we see, some four hundred or five hundred feet below us, so that it seems that we might almost throw a stone into it, a small lake.

This is Bessie Lake, named after Mrs.C.F.Kohl, of Idlewyld.