MOUNT LOGAN, GASPE 
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Fernald Pass, planning to reach Couvert du Chaudron and the basin of the 
Little Cap Chat; but unceasing gales, fog, a two-days’ blizzard, and more 
fog cut off all field work, and they were forced to give up the quest and to 
return to the Locked Camp. 
Thus we feel that at least a small portion of the Shickshock Mountains 
that has long been an obscure region is better understood. But there is much 
exploration yet to do. A fascinating program for a few weeks of clear au¬ 
tumn weather would be to follow the range eastward to Mt. Albert or west¬ 
ward to Mt. Bayfield. Mt. Bayfield, although quite unknown to the guides 
and woodsmen of the region, is certainly in the general position indicated for 
it by Logan and by Coleman and, as seen from the peak of Mt. Logan, seemed 
quite as high if not even higher than the latter mountain. The most feasible 
route has not been worked out, but with the interest in the Shickshock Moun¬ 
tains that is now developing Mt. Bayfield will soon become better known. 
Our route to Mt. Logan through Fernald Basin involves a hard pack up the 
nearly precipitous wall below the Pass, and it is probable that a more gradual 
trail could be worked out along the branch of Ouillet Brook between the 
westerly flanks of Fortin and Logan. The hunters’ route up the Little Cap 
Chat between Couvert du Chaudron and Pembroke, thence to the broad 
meadows east of Pease Basin, is said to be quite feasible: it starts nearer 
civilization, and equipment can be hauled nearer to the mountains; but 
our route from above the Locked Camp has the advantage of a recently 
beaten trail and of cleared camp sites at convenient distances along it. 
