4 CAMP FIRES IN THE YUKON 



alone, on a single hunting expedition, can the sports- 

 man obtain moose, caribou, mountain sheep, goats, 

 and grizzly bear, and the hunting fields are ample 

 and the game plentiful. 



The sportsman who would visit the game ranges 

 of this country must go prepared, and preparation 

 involves a very considerable element of time as com- 

 munication with the interior is very slow, particu- 

 larly in winter season. It was in the fall of 1913 

 that the writer planned his expedition to the Yukon 

 for the season of 1914. After considerable investi- 

 gation it was decided to go from Seattle to Skagway, 

 Alaska, by boat, thence by rail across the White 

 Pass, a distance of one hundred miles inland to 

 White Horse, thence by pack train westward by 

 north, following the valleys, to Lake Kluane, and 

 then westward across the mountains to the eastern 

 slopes of the coast range, where St. Elias and Mt. 

 Natazhat raise their glistening snow crests to the sky. 

 The problem of guides is always an important one 

 for any kind of a hunt, and this is particularly true 

 of the country we proposed to visit, as it is necessary 

 that the guides know the game ranges and, in view 

 of the few men living in the interior and away from 

 the regular lines of travel, suitable guides are diffi- 

 cult to obtain. 



Indeed, the guides are not guides at all, but are 

 men who are living in the remote parts of the coun- 

 try engaged in the business of trapping fur-bearing 



