NO. 30 SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, IQIt2 
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River valley, the Moose Pass camp and the Robson Pass camp. 
Many fine photographs were secured, and a reconnoissance section 
made of the great block of Cambrian and Ordovician strata from 
which the mountains of this region have been formed by uplift and 
erosion, 
The most beautiful scenery was met with in the vicinity of Robson 
Peak. From a point 1,800 feet above the Robson Pass camp, one of 
the most interesting and superb views is obtained (fig. 27). The 
Fic. 23—Kodak view of a storm gathering over the Robson massif. In 
the foreground Smoky River flowing out of Lake Adolphus. Above the 
latter Robson Pass and then Berg Lake. The three glaciers Hunga, Blue, 
and Chupo, are seen in profile on the left. Photograph by Walcott, ro12. 
horses in the photograph are near the edge of a cliff overlooking and 
rising 1,700 feet above the lake. Robson Peak rises cliff on cliff from 
the lake 7,000 feet (2,136 meters) to the summit, where the vapors 
from the Pacific gather nearly every day of the year. On the western 
side the slope is 8,800 feet (2,679 meters) from the summit to the floor 
of the valley above Lake Kinney. On the east and southeast the upper 
3,000 feet are very precipitous, but below the slope is more gentle, 
forming the névé of the great Hunga (chief) Glacier. One of the 
