SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 



VOL. 70 



Passing- up the Bow River from Banff there is a beautiful view 

 from A'ermihon Lakes of the western slope of Rundle Mountain near 

 Banff ( fig". 2 ) . To the north Mount Louis in the Sawback Range 

 thrusts its pinnacles of upturned limestones far above timber-line 

 (fig. 3). The jDinnacles when seen from the north present a bold, 

 strong sky-line (fig. 4). 



Leaving the Canadian Pacific Railway at Lake Louise Station, the 

 Bow Valley extends to the northwest parallel to the Continental 

 Divide which forms its southwestern side. Bow Lake at the head 



Fig. 2. — Southwest slope of Rundle Mountain, looking across Vermilion 

 Lakes, 2 miles {^.2 km.) west of Banff. The mountain is composed of slop- 

 ing limestones that form bold eastward facing cliffs. Photograph by 

 Walcott, 1918. 



of the valley is a beautiful sheet of water hemmed in by bald moun- 

 tain slopes and cliffs on the west and north and by the mass of 

 Mount Hector (11,125 feet) on the east. From the west numerous 

 glaciers drain into the lake. The first one encountered is Crowfoot 

 (fig. 5), which flows from the great Wauputek snow-field along the 

 Continental Divide. Some of the smaller glaciers bring down an 

 immense amount of broken and ground up rock which forms long 

 slopes extending nearly to the edge of the lake (figs. 6 and 7) . 



