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THE CHISELED WESTERN WALL OF LOCH VALE
Photograph by John King Sherman
PRECIPICE-WALLED GORGES
 CHASM LAKE AND LONGS PEAK Photograph by John King Sherman |
A DISTINGUISHED feature of the park is its profusion of cliff-cradled, glacier-watered valleys unexcelled for wildness and the glory of their flowers. Here grandeur and romantic beauty compete.
These valleys lie in two groups, one north, the other south of Longs Peak, in the angles of the main range; the northern group called the Wild Gardens, the southern group called the Wild Basin.
There are few spots, for instance, so impressively beautiful as Loch Vale, with its three shelved lakes lying two thousand feet sheer below Taylor Peak. Adjoining is Glacier Gorge at the foot of the precipitous north slope of Longs Peak, holding in rocky embrace its own group of three lakelets.
The Wild Basin, with its wealth of lake and precipice, still remains unexploited and known to few.
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