292 CAMP-FIRES IN THE CANADIAN ROCKIES 



The accompanying sketch shows the situation, both 

 as it was and as it is The peak to the left is slowly shar- 

 ing the fate of its opposite neighbor, but its summit wall 

 is yet well preserved. 



Quite rapidly the sharpest peaks and the sheerest walls 

 of the Canadian Rockies are weathering down, and be- 

 coming talus and slide-rock. And rapidly, also, are the 

 avalanches filling up the valleys with slide-rock and soil, 

 and tree-trunks torn from the steep slopes. Eventually 

 the sharpest of these peaks will be rounded off into great 

 knobs, like Bird Mountain and Bald Mountain; and their 

 rounded tops will be crowned with thick skull-caps of 

 broken rock. These mountains are yet young. If the 

 world does not grow cold too soon for them, even the 

 tallest of the peaks between the Elk and the Bull may yet 

 be broken down to timberline, and their rounded tops 

 may be covered with green timber. 



Regard them where you may, and how you may, these 

 summit ranges tell wonderful stories of Nature's daily 

 toil in her rocky mountain workshop. 



