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but as far as known it had not been visited, except by trappers lung 

 ago, until the summer of iQ2i when Walter D. Wilcox and A. L. 

 Castle camped in it and photographed some of its more striking 

 features. Wilcox called it the " Valley of the Hidden Lakes," ' but 

 for geologic description and reference " Douglas Canyon " is more 

 simple. 



Mount Douglas (10,615 ft., 3,018 m., figs. 2 and 3) towers for 

 4,500 feet ( 1,371.60 m.) above the canyon bottom, and Lake Douglas 



Fig. 8. — Lake Gwendolyn, the gem of the upland valley, with Bonnet 

 glacier and the northwest cliffs of Bonnet Mountain. 



Locality: The lake is about 12.5 miles (20 km.) east-northeast of Lake 

 Louise Station on the Canadian Pacific Railway, Alberta, Canada, and 7,500 

 feet (2,250 m.) above sea level. (Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Walcott, 1922.) 



(fig. i) fills the ancient pre-glacial channel for two miles or more. 

 This superb canyon valley with its forests, lakes, glaciers and moun- 

 tain walls and peaks (figs, i, 3-10) should be opened up to the moun- 

 tain tourist who has the energy to ride along a fine Rocky Motuitains 

 Park trail (fig. 12) from Lake Louise Station up the Pipestone and 

 Little Pipestone rivers to the upper section of the Red Deer River, 

 or from the Station by the way of Lakes Ptarmigan and Baker to the 

 Red Deer camp and thence to Douglas Lake and Canyon Valley. 



' Bull. Geog. Soc. Pliiladelphia, \'ol. XX, 1921. 



