MOUNT LOGAN, GAS PE 
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geologist, Piofessoi A. P. Coleman, ascended the Cap Chat River and under¬ 
took an exploration of its mountains, “but owing to bad weather and the 
lack of knowledge of the mountains by the writer's guides, less was accom¬ 
plished than was hoped for. 
“It was intended to climb mount Logan, shown on the geological map 
as having a height of 3,768 feet, and about 17 miles up the river. The guides 
had not heard of the mountain and maintained that mount Nicolabert 
Sketch map of 
THE MOUNT LOGAN REGION 
J FRANKLIN COLLINS 
1923 
- Camp .Route 1923 -Route 1922 -Tote road 
__ MILES (APPROXIMATE) 
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A-Fernald Basin. B-NeftleGully C-LitlieGully. D-Big Chimney. 
E-Grcen Gully. F-Fernald Pass (Dry pond at left ,Fernald Lake at right) 
G-Razor Back H-PeaseBasm I-Hanging Valley. 
Fig. 1 —Sketch map of the Mt. Logan Region. 
[Logan’s Bonnehomme], farther up the river, was the highest peak, so it 
was agreed the expedition should go to that point.” 3 
Coleman and his party were handicapped by fog and rain and, after at¬ 
tempts to reach Mt. Logan by ascending a high ridge (3086 feet) opposite 
the mouth of Pineau River, were forced by bad weather and depletion of 
food supply to turn back without seeing that mountain. 
In July, 1922, Professor Arthur Stanley Pease and the junior writer, find¬ 
ing themselves on the Gaspe coast with a few days at their disposal, at¬ 
tempted to rediscover the somewhat mysterious Mt. Logan. One of our 
guides of sixteen and seventeen years before on Mt. Albert and Tabletop 
Mountain at the eastern end of the Shickshock Range, Joseph Fortin of 
Ste. Anne des Monts, was fortunately open for an engagement but owing 
3 A. P. Coleman: Physiography and Glacial Geology of Gaspe Peninsula, Quebec, Canada Geol. Survey Bull. 
No. 34, 1922, p. 27. 
