I {o CAMP-KIRI'IS IN llllv CANADIAN KOC KlllS 



'Vhc fort'i^oing ^' apprt'i'iation " is in no sense a di- 

 gression, lor C'harlie Smith was lai more interesting 

 ami notewoithy tluin any ol tlie mountains up whieh lie 

 leil me. 



Every sp(U tsm. in knows (l\al the oiiasions where h)ur 

 men i an piolit.ihlv luuit toiuthei aie lew anil lar he- 

 tween. Mr. Thillips usually went out with Maek Nor- 

 boe. |ohn Niuhoe maiie \.iiu>us speeial scoutmg trips 

 lor the general wellare, and Charlie Smith and I worked 

 together. After the great day with goats, on Thillips 

 I'eak, we devoteii (Uir energies to liunting lor gii//ly 

 bears; and ui ijuest ol tiiem we went into all sorts of 

 plaees. Inuueiliatelv alter e.unpini:; in Avalanehe Val- 

 ley, our liist laii- was to hunt ilow n the valley, thiough 

 the ribbt)n ol green tunhii, si\ miles or so straight aw^ay 

 to the base ol Koth Mount. lin; .uu! .dthough we louiul 

 .d>out a do/en or lilteen rubbing-trees, where bears had 

 stooil up to seiatih their baeks, we saw no bears. 



Continuously we watehed the open grounii of the 

 '' slules " lor be. lis feeding; ami as often as we eould 

 manage it, wi- (limbed to some new sununit, in onler to 

 view a new b.isin, new loek walls, more slides, and more 

 lu'w (.■ountiy l.ii Iu'mmuI. In sueh .i region as that is, to 

 hunt is to iluub; .uul to iluub is usually to go above 

 timber line beh>re you stop. 



I was tu-iiui'iuly suipiiseii by tlie ditlereiices between 

 mountain sides and summits that one wouKi naturally 

 e\peet to linil alike. Take I'alse Noteh, for instanee, 

 about two nules above Camp Hornaday, whieh eame 

 about through mv initiative. 



