240 CAMP-FIRES IN THE CANADIAN ROCKIES 



tains of British Columbia. There is one within two miles 

 of Charlie Smith's ranch on Elk River. 



On reaching the summit of the lofty ridge, the hunters 

 found themselves at the foot of an unscalable wall be- 

 tween two hundred and three hundred feet high, with a 

 slide-rock basin beyond, another transverse ridge beyond 

 that, and no sheep in sight. On the north side, their first 

 ridge dropped away very steeply to a V-shaped valley 

 and a creek. The great ridge that rose beyond that was 

 even taller than that on which they stood; and creek 

 and ridge swung around the eastern end of ridge No. i 

 at very nearly a right angle, debouching into Avalanche 

 Valley half a mile below the new camp. The summit 

 of Ridge No. i reminded me so much of the business 

 centre of a cyclorama that I named it that, and called 

 its eastern terminus Cyclorama Point. 



Two other interesting incidents marked Mr. Phillips's 

 first afternoon on Cyclorama Ridge. One was a goat per- 

 formance, the other the discovery of good mountain sheep 

 signs. The former is thus described in detail by Mr. 

 Phillips: 



" On rounding a small cliff that broke out of the side 

 of the mountain, we discovered about fifty yards away 

 to our left, a nanny goat, a yearling billy and a kid. In 

 Mack Norboe's mountain language he called them an 

 old lady, a little billy and a goatee. As goats are always 

 interesting to me, on account of their propensity for 

 doing queer things, we sat down to watch them. 



" They had not seen us, and the old mother was busy 

 licking the fac^ of the cliff. Perhaps she was finding 



