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A side trip was made in August from the Lake Windermere area 

 west up Horsethief Canyon to the Lake of the Hanging (ilaciers 

 (figs. I and 4). Passing through Wilmer the temperature was 

 above 90° ; two days later the snow flakes were sifting down on 

 the tent in the early morning at the camp just below the foot of 

 Starbird Glacier. Climbing up 2,000 feet on a slippery trail, we spent 

 a day at the Lake of the Hanging Glaciers, and were so fortunate as 

 to have a little sunshine in the intervals between snow squalls and 

 whirling clouds of mist. Some of the photographs reproduced here 



Fici. 5. — Looking acrobb Columbia Ri\cr \'allcy to the west face of Stan- 

 ford Range between Stoddart Canyon (on right) and Dry-Creek Canyon 

 (on left). At the mouth of Stoddart Canyon the Upper Cambrian Lysell 

 limestones (L.) form a low cliff, and to the left of the canyon foothills of 

 Mons shales and limestones (M.) abut against the cliffs of Silurian lime- 

 stones, Brisco (Br.) and Beaver foot (B.). The strike of the Mons and the 

 Silurian strata is indicated by short lines, and the position of the fault 

 between the Mons and the Brisco limestones by a dotted line. A second 

 block of the Mons with Silurian further up Stoddart Canyon is indicated 

 by the letters M., Br. The Red Wall fault and breccia are shown on the 

 face of the high cliffs to the left, whicli are a short distance south of Sinclair 

 Canyon. (Walcott, 1923.) 



give a very imperfect idea of this l)eautiful lake hidden away in an old 

 glacial cirque which now has a normal glacier fed l)y the falling ice 

 and snow of the smaller glaciers clinging to the cliffs above. To be 

 fully appreciated both this lake and the Starbird glacier must be 

 visited for a few days. 



As a whole the season was a successful one, both from its geologic 

 results and the sketches and photographs of mountain wild flowers 

 obtained by Mrs. Walcott, who sketched in water colors 30 species of 

 wild flowers or their fruit that were new to her collection, a portion 



