
A CONVENTION OF FREAKS, 
starting a forest fire, intentionally or other- 
wise. The hard hearted, prosaic law mak- 
ers had not even made an exception in 
case of a man who kills a sheep and wants 
to celebrate the event. Visions of fire war- 
dens, sheriffs, policemen, judges and pvison 
bars lent the wings of Mercury to the feet 
of the water carriers, wherever and when- 
ever they could get a chance to run. The 
fight was kept up until 2 o’clock in the 
morning, when the fire was finally brought 
under control, before it reached the 
camp. Then an inventory was made of the 
damage. It was found that though the tent 
was still able to stand, there were over 
200 holes in it and that blankets, pack 
covers and robes were more or less dam- 
aged by sparks; but the mighty Nimrod 
had saved his mutton and had celebrated 
the killing of his first and second mountain 
sheep. 
I might cover 20 pages of RECREATION 
with descriptions and pictures of odd things 
I found in our travels; but I must stop and 
leave room for better stuff which my 
friends have sent me. 
While in camp at Spray lake, we gath- 
ered up a lot of freak growths of timber, 
carried them to camp, set them up and 
photographed them. Two of these are al- 
most exactly alike. Each one shows the 
result of a tree 4 or 5 inches in diameter, 
having fallen on a young spruce that was 
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probably an inch thick and bent it down to 
the ground. The sprout grew up, finaily 
taking a half turn around the pole which 
lay across it, and forming almost an exact 
model of a plumber’s pipe wrench. These 
2 spruces are each about 8 inches in diame- 
ter and the stratification of the wood shows 
they are at least 40 years old. The saplings 
must therefore have fallen across them 40 
years ago and both are still in a good state 
of preservation. 
The creek that flows from the great Bow 
glacier into Bow lake, has cut a narrow 
chasm through a solid wall of limestone, 
nearly 50 feet deep, and yet so narrow that 
one can step across it at the top. I climbed 
down to the level of the creek at one point 
and got a picture looking up through it. I 
focussed at 30 feet and by stopping the lens 
down to 128 f. was able to get good de- 
tail in both foreground and background. 
The small spruce shrub on top of the rock, 
shown in the center of the picture, was 
at least 60 feet away, yet is perfectly sharp. 
An interesting feature of the photograph is 
the exquisite lighting. The picture was 
made when the sun was directly overhead. 
and the rays strike projecting points on 
the rock here and there, all through the 
chasm, thus showing the weird, rugged for- 
mation of the walls. 
I trust I have shown pictures enough 
here to give many of my readers valuable 
