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Title: Climbs & exploration in the Canadian Rockies
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Stutfield, Hugh Edward Millington, 1858-1929. (from old catalog) Collie, Norman, 1859-1942, joint author
Subjects: Rocky mountains Mountaineering
Publisher: London, New York and Bombay, Longmans, Green and co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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by Collie afterSir Martin Conway. Forbes could just be seenlifting its head high above all its neighbours,but everything beyond a radius of ten or twelvemiles was quite invisible. The forest fires, itwas evident, were beginning in real earnest;and with deep disgust we saw volumes ofsmoke issuing, as from the crater of a volcano,from the lower end of the Glacier Lake valley,whither we had intended to shift our campon the following day. Clearly we were in foranother bad time, as far as scenery and photo-graphy were concerned; but when we werehalf-way down the mountain side the hazebecame somewhat less dense, and we had amost beautiful view that embraced many ofthe most characteristic features of CanadianRocky Mountain landscape. The sun was low above the horizon; thelurid brassy glare, which is the inevitableaccompaniment of smoke in the atmosphere,overspread the sky, and the graceful forms ofthe mountains, their outlines softened by the all-prevailing vapour, towered high above the 288
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Fording the Saskatchewan ASCENT OF HOWSE PEAK dark mysterious pine-woods and gleaming glaciers.Beneath us were the broad sandy bars andshingle-flats at the head of the west fork ofthe Saskatchewan, whose numerous windingrivulets and streams flowed glittering in thefading sunlight, like a tangled skein of goldenthreads, amid rocky knolls and pebbly islandscrowned by clumps of firs. A land of infinitebeauty and strange subtle charm—melancholy,no doubt, even gloomy, in certain of its aspects;especially when the evening shadows rest onthe sombre and monotonous expanse of forest,and the departing sun leaves the mountainsgrey and cold; but, however cheerless the sceneat nightfall, one reflects that the peaks will begilded anew in the morning, and that the fulllight of day will lend fife and animation evento the darkest recesses of the woods. 289 T CHAPTER XVI GLACIER LAKE AND THE LYELL ICE-FIELD It had been our intention to journey straight from Howse Peak to Glacier Lake, but the fire th

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