﻿NO. 5 



SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, ig22 



II 



The trail into Douglas Lake from the Red Deer River is not cut 

 out for three miles, but lo pack horses were led through the forest 

 on a mountain slope without difficulty. This part of the trail should 

 be opened up by the Rocky ^Mountains Park service and made part 

 of the Pipestone-Red Deer-Ptarmigan circuit. 



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Fig. II. — Limestone rock fall from mountain side on right of picture. The 

 horses and riders indicate the size of the blocks. 



Locality: Douglas Lake canyon about 1.5 miles (2.4 km.) above Lake 

 Douglas and about 13 miles (20.S km.) east-northeast of Lake Louise Station 

 on the Canadian Pacific Railway, Alberta, Canada. (Mr. and Mrs. C. D. 

 Walcott, 1922.) 



Game is abundant. The party saw 144 mountain goats, many black 

 tail deer, and marmots on the Alpine slopes of Douglas Canyon (figs. 

 7 and 10), and at the head of the Red Deer-Pipestone divide, moun- 

 tain sheep. 



The measured geologic section was from the base of the Devonian 

 above Lake Gwendolyn across the canyon to the deep cirque below 

 Halstead Pass where the great Lyell limestone forms the crest of 



