. The Rockies of Canada; . 126 es of Canada to a half ards of pre in such pi. and !er what i forward, but ound of the a: nswer. We / muskegs, caking of r in the ent of i noisy lower tesl trast el through pass w silence r taps, there are limestone cliffs lined ; ve the limits of tt ered pools are col- lected in the inequ^^ar#$& /#> sound of breaks the appra^M* Kananaskts Lajefae tinkling of the and the tr the only sign of high valleys. net rate it, riown ? made the have le trails h all the 1 of the kies. These trails whi know, f date from the era o and so ome of the c oot-paths, le India; cp
. The Rockies of Canada; . 126 es of Canada to a half ards of pre in such pi. and !er what i forward, but ound of the a: nswer. We / muskegs, caking of r in the ent of i noisy lower tesl trast el through pass w silence r taps, there are limestone cliffs lined ; ve the limits of tt ered pools are col- lected in the inequ^^ar#$& /#> sound of breaks the appra^M* Kananaskts Lajefae tinkling of the and the tr the only sign of high valleys. net rate it, riown ? made the have le trails h all the 1 of the kies. These trails whi know, f date from the era o and so ome of the c oot-paths, le India; cpeditions. ling ot were used as n commun the Kootenay. UnMan Grails 127 Indians and the tribes that inhabit the plains, for thebartering of fur, game, and horses. So all the im-portant valleys and passes have well-marked trailsand the side valleys inferior ones, though it is notalways easy to find them or stay on them whenfound. A trail is subject to constant degeneration,for several reasons. Avalanches and snow-slidessweep over it, and sometimes cover a long stretchwith broken trees and great masses of rock. Newareas of timber are burned over every year, and thecharred trees, after standing a few years, begin toyield to the wind and storms and fall across the mountain streams often change their courses,cutting away new banks and undermining manyplaces where trails were made. Even in the prime-val forest the underbrush has a constant tendencyto choke these pathways, and aged monarchs of theforest die and fall across them. No one ever cuts atree, if there is a way around, because every oneassumes, very selfishly, that he may ne
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