The National geographic magazine . sin of solid rock and the outletstream rushes into a small canyon andis very swift and full of cascades all theway to the great falls which we had seenbelow. A storm was coming up and I hastenedback to the falls, which were reached inan hour. Here I saw Bryant on theopposite side of the stream trying to 98 The National Geographic Magazine cross the canyon by building a bridgeof logs. All but one fell short, and I ad-vised not trying to cross here, as it wasa terrible place to slip. Thus we hadto travel on opposite sides all the wayto the first lake we had dis
The National geographic magazine . sin of solid rock and the outletstream rushes into a small canyon andis very swift and full of cascades all theway to the great falls which we had seenbelow. A storm was coming up and I hastenedback to the falls, which were reached inan hour. Here I saw Bryant on theopposite side of the stream trying to 98 The National Geographic Magazine cross the canyon by building a bridgeof logs. All but one fell short, and I ad-vised not trying to cross here, as it wasa terrible place to slip. Thus we hadto travel on opposite sides all the wayto the first lake we had I built a fire to keep warm whileBryant made a rough passage over thecliffs on the opposite side and finally ap- tied. We now felt certain that this wasone of the underground outlets of theupper lake. That night the moon broke throughthe clouds and flooded the lake withsoft light, bringing the heavily woodedislands into strong relief. From ourtent door we could see, beyond the broadexpanse of water, a grand picture of. Photo by Wilcox Fording- the Kananaskis peared at the lake, having found a logjam above. This lake has no outlet, though anancient channel serves as an overflow intime of flood. Thus the trees cease togrow at the certain level where the out-let allows no farther rise. We followedthe canyon made by the former stream,and only after an hour of the most diffi-cult bush work I have ever seen, wereached the lower lake at the greatspring near which our boat had been dark mountains inclosing a silvery icefield, and through the calm night air wecould hear distinctly the falls we hadvisited that day with so much next day was to be our last atthe Kananaskis Lakes, and was full ofactivity. In the morning I made a pan-orama of eight plates from one of theislands. Unfortunately most of thisseries, after escaping the perils of thewilderness and three or four hundredmiles on the back of an Indian pony, Exploration in the Canadian Rockies 199 fell vict
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