242 CAMP-FIRES IN THE CANADIAN ROCKIES 



Quite near to the haunt of the goats, the hunters dis- 

 covered four or five wild-animal beds which Mack 

 thought had been made by sheep. This belief was con- 

 firmed by the finding of some sheep hair. From the 

 character of the spot, and the absence of protecting cliffs, 

 the sheep sign was supposed to represent a band of ewes, 

 until presently the hunters found unmistakable evidence 

 of the recent presence of a band of large rams, which 

 evidently had lived for some weeks in that neighborhood. 

 The contiguous ridges and slides were carefully exam- 

 ined, but no sheep were seen that day, and at nightfall 

 the hunters returned to the little pulpit-like spot in the 

 green timber whereon John Norboe had with great pains 

 made a camp close beside an old Indian trail. 



On the following morning the sheep-hunt opened 

 early and with vigor. The three hunters packed their 

 entire outfit upon their backs, and set out to make a hunt 

 up the newly-found creek, — which later on for a good 

 reason they elected to call Grizzly Creek, — and camp 

 well northward of its valley. They started up that creek 

 from its mouth, half a mile below their camp, but had not 

 gone more than a mile through its tangle of down timber 

 when they discovered their long-lost band of rams. They 

 were on the western face of Cyclorama Ridge, under a 

 point which sheltered them from the wind, and the wind 

 was blowing half a gale from the hunters perilously near 

 the sheep. 



The plan of the hunt was quickly formed. John Nor- 

 boe was sent down to Avalanche Creek, with all the outfit. 

 Mr. Phillips and Mack stripped for a strenuous effort, 



