Desolation Valley and all its surroundings is also within close reach.

This is some four miles westward of Glen Alpine Springs, and is reached by way of easy mountain trails under sweet-scented pines and gnarled old junipers; besides singing streams; across crystal lakes, through a cliff-guarded glade where snowbanks linger until midsummer, ever renewing the carpet of green, decking it with heather and myriad exquisite mountain blossoms.

On, over a granite embankment, and lo! your feet are stayed and your heart is stilled as your eyes behold marvelous Desolation Valley.

Greeting you on its southern boundary stands majestic Pyramid Peak, with its eternal snows.

Lofty companions circling to your very feet make the walls forming the granite cradle of Olney, the Lake of Mazes.