Outing of the Alpine Club of Canada. 



SHERBROOKE LAKE OUTING OF THE ALPINE 

 CLUB OF CANADA. 



By Rodney L. Glisan. 



The sixth annual outing of the Alpine Club of Canada 

 was held July 26 to August 4, 191 1. The camp was 

 located above Sherbrooke Lake, in the heart of the 

 Rockies, amid impressive scenery, and only six miles 

 from the railroad, the most accessible place any club 

 could have selected when scenery is considered. 



I had come up the Kootenai River and Arrow Lakes 

 to Revelstoke on the Canadian Pacific, had stopped at 

 Glacier and Field, with side trips to Emerald Lake, Yoho 

 Valley and Burgess Pass, had visited Lake Louise, Mo- 

 raine Lake and the Valley of the Ten Peaks, and had 

 keenly enjoyed the preliminary trip. The trains and 

 hotels, however, were woefully overcrowded, and it was 

 with a feeling of relief that I saw the train rush on as I 

 stood on the station platform at Hector and leisurely 

 looked around me. No frenzied rush to the hotel to 

 demand, beg, and implore admission. The diminutive 

 station-house and a water-tank composed the buildings 

 of Hector, while the station-agent and the packers as- 

 sorting dunnage bags comprised the total population. 

 Receiving assurance that my dunnage bag would surely 

 follow, I went over to the packers' tents on the shore of 

 Wapta Lake nearby, where I was given a hearty wel- 

 come by several club members whom I had met on the 

 Paradise Valley outing four years before. I was intro- 

 duced to about a dozen members who had arrived by 

 an earlier train and were eating lunch before starting for 

 the main camp. It does not take long to get acquainted 

 in the mountains; five minutes I knew them all; in an 

 hour we were old friends. 



