CONTENTS
I. [Bennie Visits the Public Library and Gives Spider a Surprise] 13 II. [Bennie Takes the Rope Up His First Cliff] 19 III. [How Bennie Earned a Trip to Oregon] 31 IV. [Bennie and Spider Cross the Continent] 39 V. [All Aboard for Crater Lake!—and Dumpling in the Other Car] 50 VI. [Bennie and Spider Have to Make After-dinner Speeches, and Bennie’s Knees Knock] 57 VII. [Held Up by the Snow, with the Thermometer at 86°] 68 VIII. [Up the Rim of Crater Lake at Last, Through the Snow-drifts] 75 IX. [The Mountain That Fell Into Itself] 83 X. [Down the Rim to the Lake—The Boys Ski on a Crater Snow-drift in July] 88 XI. [Dumplin’ Tests the Strength of a Snow Cornice on Garfield Peak] 106 XII. [Bennie Climbs the Mast of the Phantom Ship and Knows He Has Done Something] 113 XIII. [The Scouts Are Driven Ashore by a Storm and Have to Climb Llao Rock—and They Learn a Lesson] 122 XIV. [Bennie Takes a Day Off to Do a Good Turn—He Washes All the Dirty Clothes] 137 XV. [The Long Hike—The Scouts Find Packing Grub and Blanket Rolls Up and Down Cliffs is Hard Work] 144 XVI. [The Climb Up Scott Peak—Bennie Begins Work for a Merit Badge for Hiking] 154 XVII. [Good-bye to Crater Lake, and a Motor Trip to Bend] 167 XVIII. [The Boys Encounter “Pep,” Who Promises Them a Bear Hunt] 174 XIX. [The Bear Hunt—In Which the Boys Discover that the Bear Doesn’t Do All the Hard Work] 178 XX. [Bennie Achieves a Dog, and the Party Puts Out a Forest Fire] 206 XXI. [The Pack Train Has to Toboggan Into Hunt’s Cove, and Bennie Puts “Action” Into It] 221 XXII. [The First Attempt at Jefferson—Dumplin’ Almost Falls to Death—The Hardest Work the Boys Ever Did] 234 XXIII. [The Summit is Conquered!] 262 XXIV. [Back Over the Divide—A Horse Turns Three Somersaults Down the Snow Slope] 273 XXV. [Bennie Loses Jeff, but Brings Home Something Else to Last Him Many Years] 280