Smithsonian miscellaneous collections . 8 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 74 but as far as knuwn it had not been visited, except by trappers longago, until the summer of 1921 when Walter D. Wilcox and A. camped in it and photographed some of its more strikingfeatures. Wilcox called it the Valley of the Hidden Lakes, butfor geologic description and reference Douglas Canyon is moresimple. Mount Douglas (10,615 ft., 3,018 m., figs. 2 and 3) towers for4,500 feet (1, m.) above the canyon bottom, and Lake Douglas. Fig. 8.—Lake Gwendolyn, the gem of the upland valley, with B
Smithsonian miscellaneous collections . 8 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 74 but as far as knuwn it had not been visited, except by trappers longago, until the summer of 1921 when Walter D. Wilcox and A. camped in it and photographed some of its more strikingfeatures. Wilcox called it the Valley of the Hidden Lakes, butfor geologic description and reference Douglas Canyon is moresimple. Mount Douglas (10,615 ft., 3,018 m., figs. 2 and 3) towers for4,500 feet (1, m.) above the canyon bottom, and Lake Douglas. Fig. 8.—Lake Gwendolyn, the gem of the upland valley, with Bonnetglacier and the northwest cliffs of Bonnet Mountain. Locality: The lake is about miles (20 km.) east-northeast of LakeLouise Station on the Canadian Pacific Railway, Alberta, Canada, and 7,500feet (2,250 m.) above sea level. (Mr. and Mrs. C D. Walcott, 1922.) (fig. i) fills the ancient pre-glacial channel for two miles or superb canyon valley with its forests, lakes, glaciers and moun-tain walls and peaks (figs, i, 3-10) should be opened up to the moun-tain tourist who has the energy to ride along a fine Rocky MountainsPark trail (fig. 12) from Lake Louise Station up the Pipestone andLittle Pipestone rivers to the upper section of the Red Deer River,or from the Station by the way of Lakes Ptarmigan and Baker to theRed Deer camp and thence to Douglas Lake and Canyon Valley. Bull. Geog. Soc. Philadelphia. Vol. XX, 1921. NO. 5 SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, l()22 6
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