NO. 12 



SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I917 



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" From the Vermilion River the party followed a new forest ranger 

 trail up Tumbling Brook to a small, beautiful glacier beneath the 

 great, eastward facing cliffs of Gray Peak which is shown in the 

 panoramic view (fig. i of this sketch), on the left of the pass between 

 it and Mount Drysdale. 



" Wolverine Pass is a broad, rolling area at about timber line. On 

 its southwest slope the northeast branch of Moose Creek begins, on 



Fig. ig. — Bull moose shot for the collections of the United States 

 National Museum. Photograph by Walcott, 1917. 



A cow and young were also obtained near by, all on the west side of 

 the Vermilion River, about 9 miles below Vermilion Pass. 



the north slope the head waters of Ochre Creek, and on the southeast 

 the drainage is to Timibling Creek, a branch of Ochre Creek. The 

 views from the upper slopes northeast of the Pass are among the 

 finest in the Canadian Rockies. 



" Mount Drysdale, on the right, rises 2.200 feet above the Pass, and 

 Mount Cambria, on the left, 1,800 feet, the altitude of the Pass being 

 7,200 feet. Tumbling Glacier, on the left of Mount Gray, is formed 

 from the snows blown over Tumbling Clififs from the westward. On 



