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I was quite athrill when I learned that one of our party was Ernest Feuz, a 

 real Swiss guide. 



Our beautiful trail led us the third day into the camp we had been anticipat- 

 ing so long — a little white city of tents, the most busy of which we found to be 

 the large dining tent, which seated one hundred and fifty climbers at a time. 



And let me not forget to tell you of the tea tent. I care nothing for tea — in 

 fact, quite dislike it at home — but I am now sure there is no one of us so averse 

 to tea as to be able to enjoy the friendship of these charming people and not be 

 lured by the sociability over the teacups. 



What a wonderful camp-spot it was in that wide alpine meadow near Lake 

 Magog with its ever-changing reflections of one of the most beautiful and ma- 

 jestic of all mountains, Mount Assiniboine ! The boom of avalanches was our 

 morning serenade. 



Conversation around the camp-fire was on the work of the day, centering, I 

 think, on Mount Magog, the official graduating climb up which new members 

 must make their way in order to qualify as active members. 



Mr. Patterson, the president, gave me the thought that, while the club is 

 proud of their record of ascents, the fact that these ascents are being made 

 with safety is a source of greater pride to them. 



Mr. Mitchell gave me the message that a cordial welcome awaits any Sierra 

 Club people who may come that way. I truly congratulate anyone who may be 

 so favored as to meet with the Canadian Alpine Club. 



Yours very truly, Gertrude Enid Parker 



GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, DEPT. MINES 

 SYDNEY, N. S. WALES 

 AUSTRALIA 



Mr. W. E. Colby, November, 5, IQI? 



402 Mills Building, San Francisco, Cal., U. S. A. 



Dear Mr. Colby: It is with great pleasure that I received the January 

 (191 7) number of the Sierra Club Review. The reading is excellent; John 

 Muir's note on glacial action is very fine indeed. In Muir you had a man in 

 America long ago who explained the action of ice-rivers, and it was really quite 

 unnecessary to have waited until Henry Gannett made his great rediscovery, 

 or, rather, belated contribution to glacial studies. John Muir evidently was not 

 understood in his generation, but he will surely come to his own now, and he 

 will become one of the "Immortals," one who illustrated the force of the pas- 

 sages, "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth," and "Blessed 

 are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." 



The only thing missing in John Muir's account of the sculpture of the 

 Sierra which I note is the apparent failure to recognize the great preglacial 

 action of streams in carving the deep cafions of the Merced, San Joaquin, etc. 



Had I had access, however, to the treasure-house of knowledge afforded by 

 the Sierra Club's reprint of Muir's notes, I would have written a much better 

 note on "An Excursion to the Yosemite" in 1910, as I would have had a 



