. Climbs & exploration in the Canadian Rockies . and went after blue grouse and fool-hen, whileStutfield returned to the chase of Collies vener-able friend, the ancient billy. Most of the highpeaks kept themselves persistently veiled; butwe had some gorgeous Elijah Walton-like views,through the parting mists, of Mount Columbia,which, in spite of its greater height, appearsto have less attraction for clouds than its neigh-bours. From this point of view it is a sharppyramid, with most graceful contours,—alto-gether different from the flat-topped and some-what shapeless mass it appears from the o
. Climbs & exploration in the Canadian Rockies . and went after blue grouse and fool-hen, whileStutfield returned to the chase of Collies vener-able friend, the ancient billy. Most of the highpeaks kept themselves persistently veiled; butwe had some gorgeous Elijah Walton-like views,through the parting mists, of Mount Columbia,which, in spite of its greater height, appearsto have less attraction for clouds than its neigh-bours. From this point of view it is a sharppyramid, with most graceful contours,—alto-gether different from the flat-topped and some-what shapeless mass it appears from the otherside. Nearer, the triple-peaked Mount Brycetowered majestically over the sombre canyon ;while westwards the Selkirks, dominated bythe grand pyramidal peak that we used to seefrom the banks of the Bush, were distinctlyvisible. The prospect was something like thatfrom the Brevent, above Chamonix, but it wasfar more extensive ; and the mountains risingsteeply 9000 or 10,000 feet out of the low-lying valleys, formed a much more impressive 202. MoLNT Bryce from Goat Peak OUR CAMP ON GOAT PEAK panorama than anything we had seen from theSaskatchewan or Athabasca. The old billy-goat was not on view thismorning, so Stutfield returned to lunch at thetents, where he found that the men hadsighted three goats, two old ones and a kid,browsing on a hill across a deep valley notfar to the west of the camp. Descendinginto the valley he cUmbed up the other side,and, screened by a belt of low trees, creptwithin shot of the unsuspecting trio. Theyhad not shifted their position, but were brows-ing tranquilly on some small patches of grassabove a long and very steep shale-slope ter-minating in a high precipice. The first shotwas a bad miss, but the second bowled overthe biggest of the three. A couple of bullets,sent after the kid as it scampered off, onlymade the dust fly under its belly; and Stut-field was not altogether sorry that his indif-ferent shooting had saved him from the guiltof infa
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