86 CAMP FIRES IN THE YUKON 



August 25. Six o'clock this morning found us 

 feeling very fresh, and on our horses headed down 

 Count Creek, where we journeyed along the can- 

 yon six miles until we reached the Generc River 

 which rises at Klutlan Glacier. For ten miles we 

 traveled along the side of the glacier, looking for 

 bears and seeing many tracks and recent diggings, 

 but not locating any animals. This glacier is ten 

 miles across and runs back into the range many 

 miles; icy masses are continually breaking off its 

 sides, crashing and cracking in their fall. It is won- 

 derfully impressive to behold this world-shaping 

 force at work. Across the ten-mile front of the ice 

 mass is a push moraine of miniature mountains, 

 which the glacier is slowly but irresistibly pushing 

 ahead of it; on each side are moraines which the 

 glacier has flung on either flank, while looking up 

 the ice mass for twenty miles we see the valley cut 

 through by the stupendous power and pressure of 

 this glacial mass, impelled by the pressure of mile 

 upon mile of ice fields inevitably descending from the 

 higher fields, cutting through mountains and carry- 

 ing every obstacle before it. We are back in Na- 

 ture's workshop, back to an early geological age, and 

 are permitted to be awed spectators of this world- 

 shaping process, slowly but surely cutting out a val- 

 ley and piling up mountainous moraines. In the 

 course of time the glacial movement will cease, the 

 ice mass will melt and run to the sea, but the moun- 



