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The Klickitat County Agriculturist, Goldendale, WA., May 11, 1923, page 4

GULER IS A FINE TOURIST RESORT

A Trout Lake correspondent of the Agri. sends in an interesting article showing what a delightful tourist resort that section is, and it's availability to reach Mt. Adams, the ice caves, etc.
A system of roads and trails gives easy access to points of special interest. Travelers unfamiliar with the country will have little difficulty in finding their way, because there are sign-boards all along trails and at that important trail intersection.
Game is fairly abundant, and the well-stocked streams and lakes furnish excellent sport for the angler during the open season.
The outfitting points for this section are Guler and Trout Lake, about 26 miles north of White Salmon, the nearest railroad point. An automobile stage, daily except Sunday, connects White Salmon with Guler. Automobiles for special trips can also be obtained at Guler. Not only hotel accommodations but, also saddle horses, pack horses, packers, and guides usually may be secured at Guler.
The base of Mount Adams is 12 miles north. This notable peak has an elevation of 12,307 feet and its summit is crowned with perpetual snow, while extensive glaciers hold its upper slopes in their icy fingers. These glaciers present great variety and individuality. Some are very steep and broken, others steep and smooth, and still others are not only smooth, but have an easy grade. The Klickitat Precipice, on the east side of the mountain, almost perpendicular and nearly a mile high by 4 to 5 miles long, is a striking natural phenomenon with its face of glistening ice and varicolored rocks.
Bird Creek Meadows, embracing about 3,000 acres, is a most delightful mountain park and makes an ideal place for camping. Among its attractions are grassy glades, highly colored alpine flowers, groves of evergreen trees, snow-fed streams, numerous water falls, and a dozen small mountain lakes.
The series of lava caves accessible from Guler by automobile is of considerable interest to tourists. One of these caves, 7 miles west of Guler, is so well protected from summer heat that it contains ice during the entire season.
The extensive huckleberry patches, reaching from South Prairie northward to Dead Horse and westward to the Racetrack and Twin Buttes countries, attract many visitors during August and September, who come for the combined purposes of picking berries and enjoying a vacation in the mountains. A lava bed, ten miles long and from 1 to 5 miles wide, in the vicinity of Indian Racetrack, extends east to Goose Lake and south to Lava Creek and South Prairie. Forest growth is already changing this from a desolate barren into a timber-producing area of much beauty. In the smooth lava near Goose Lake there are distinct impressions of a pair of human hands and feet, which have caused considerable conjecture as to their origin. It is the opinion of scientists to recently visited the region that these impressions were cut in the lava by some Indian medicine man.
An interesting 10-day trip starts at Guler and carries the traveler by way of Mount Adams and Cispus River divide to Mount St. Helens, through the beautiful Nigger Head and Blue Lake countries, where excellent camping places and abundant forage for horses can be found.
Return may be made by way of the Spirit Lake-Guler trail, which passes through some splendid stands of timber and also crosses of the Lewis River burn, where the effects of fire on the forests are very apparent.