CHAPTER VII.
CAMPING ON MOUNT WILSON.
"On every height there lies repose." At Pasadena the mountain wall which guards the California of the South stands very near and looks down with pride upon the blooming garden below.

The mountains which belong especially to Pasadena are but three miles away.

Their average height exceeds slightly that of the Mt.
Washington range in New Hampshire.

The Sierra Madre system, of which they form a part, contains some peaks considerably higher.
Farther to the East, "Old Baldy"-- Mt.

San Antonio--raises its snowy summit to a height just close enough to ten thousand feet to test the veracity of its admirers.