The National geographic magazine . Photo by Wilcox Imposing precipices 3,000 or 4,000 feet above the valley Exploration in the Canadian Rockies 63 the latter being covered by a lightgrowth of the beautiful larch, whichresembles the eastern tamarack. Be-tween these ridges were lanes of greenmeadows and. Alpine flowers in theirprime. The plumy heads of the greatwhite anemone, which blooms near melt-ing snow banks in early spring, weremingled with innumerable painted-cups,showing every possible shade of orange,yellow, crimson, and purple, and severalspecies of yellow and purple compositeflowers.
The National geographic magazine . Photo by Wilcox Imposing precipices 3,000 or 4,000 feet above the valley Exploration in the Canadian Rockies 63 the latter being covered by a lightgrowth of the beautiful larch, whichresembles the eastern tamarack. Be-tween these ridges were lanes of greenmeadows and. Alpine flowers in theirprime. The plumy heads of the greatwhite anemone, which blooms near melt-ing snow banks in early spring, weremingled with innumerable painted-cups,showing every possible shade of orange,yellow, crimson, and purple, and severalspecies of yellow and purple compositeflowers. Jim Wood came back from atrip into the other valley and reportedthe trail rather dim and apparently butlittle used. It would be natural to inquire whytrails exist in an unexplored somewhat difficult to explain,the fact remains that almost every ac-cessible valley in these mountains hassome kind of narrow pathway runningthrough them. Successful explorationdepends in a large measure on findingand keeping to them, a
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