He simply nosed round for a bit, and then went out of the timber.
Muskwa followed him now, and he had some trouble in properly navigating himself under the handicap of his added weight.

The stars were beginning to fill the sky, and under these stars Thor struck straight up a steep and rugged slope that led to the mountain-tops.

Up and up he went, higher than Muskwa had ever been.

They crossed a patch of snow.

And then they came to a place where it seemed as if a volcano had disrupted the bowels of a mountain.