The waters are blue as the skies above them, and pure as the melting snows from Pyramid which form them.

He who has not looked upon this, the most remarkable of all the wonder pictures in the Tahoe region, has missed that for which there is no substitute.
The whole Glen Alpine basin,--which practically extends from the Tallac range on the north, from Heather Lake Pass (the outlet from Desolation Valley) and Cracked Crag on the west and southwest, Ralston Peak and range to the south and the Angora Peaks on the east,--is one mass of glacial scoriations.

Within a few stone-throws of the spring, on a little-used trail to Grass Lake, there are several beautiful and interesting markings.

One of these is a finely defined curve or groove, extending for 100 feet or more, above which, about 11/2 feet, is another groove, some two to four feet wide.

These run rudely parallel for some distance, then unite and continue as one.