MOUNTAINEERING IN THE CANADIAN 
ROCKIES. 
(ILLUSTRATED BY LANTERN). 
By Mr. HERMANN WOOLLEY. 25th November. 1904. 

The Paper described two journeys to the Canadian Rockies, 
made with a view to exploring that part of the range which lies 
North of the point where it is crossed by the Canadian Pacific 
Railway. 
The first journey was undertaken in 1898, in order to try to 
locate two mountains—Mount Brown and Mount Hooker—which 
appear on all maps of Canada between the sources of the 
Athabasca and Saskatchewan Rivers, marked with heights of 
16,000 and 15,700 feet respectively. 
These mountains were alleged to have been originally dis- 
covered by a botanist, Mr. Douglas; but Professor Coleman, of 
Toronto, in a later journey had been unable to find peaks of any 
such heights in the position given by Douglas, and it was to try 
to clear up this mystery that Professor Norman Collie, Mr. Stut- 
field, and Mr. Woolley started from Laggan, on the Canadian 
Pacific Railway, in July, 1898. 
Travelling with twelve horses carrying provisions and tents, 
and four attendants, the party ascended the Pipestone Valley, 
north of Laggan, crossed the Pipestone Pass and descended the 
Siffleur Valley to its junction with the Saskatchewan, and then 
ascended the last-named river to Bear Creek Mouth. 
Up to this point old Indian trails had been followed, and no 
special difficulties had been encouztered, apart from the burnt 
woods, which are always met with in these regions ; but after 
leaving Bear Creek Mouth progress was very slow, as the summer 
was unusually hot and the rivers were swollen with the meltings 
of the snow fields. 
The Little Fork (Bear Creek) and the Middle Fork of the 
Saskatchewan were successfully crossed ; but the North Fork 
