The Signal, 1910-12-8, Page 13ih rat Uhnigttwrii Wing
B.Y''T11E REV.._(.' R. B..01(INNEY
E PUT •in three seasons trying to conquer ' the grim, scarred old peak, Mount
Robson, and it took every packhorse,. and every blanket, and every ounce ut
grub, and every bit of muscle and nerve we could 'rake out of.our inner conscious-
, .;es -not to mention shuttles to look abroad from his naked horns un the wrinkled
• ley of the Fraser. ....
Yes. we had that look - had it on Friday.: Vugu'r,thjrteenth, 1909 -Wad the ascent
the highest peak in 'all.iiit Canadian Rockies for Canada and the Alpine Club --and
1 -ween you and me and the piebald belltntule,- it tool •most of our faculties to do it•
tl•as in August of 1007 tTiat i first saw the old bencli=nlark of 1S75 on a big Douglas tir
the summit of • Yellow -head Pass, wherejthe waters of the continent divide and turn
wards two Ixeans.
' • The summit of Yellovhcad Pass is not a popular resort by any -means. Only d very
' Irk' trail marks the progress•ot ciyization there, yet. We knew all about that rude
trail. It had been -
worse than rude to
us for two hundred
miles -evtr• since
weleft Laggan with.
the
ith-
tHe gay intention
of climbing1ilount APii WD TNR SHoI LUCK or MnL'NT ROB4ON RV.At Hx! A M1.HTY ToN�:I'r n { P. A Mnx w•11)R
Robson. •VV'e had . AND SRMRBAL .at lt•,S LUNG
hauled otic ten:''1'he Rainbow' Mountains, in all their gorgeous Colors:flanked us on either hand;'and
horsed, inlec tively branded oveLus while we tumbled with the eurrcat;-or-coiled across timbered ;bottoms .
ly too t ecti pipe_ e, and sunny, meadows where. the• wild pea -vine grows as' high as, the horses' girths. Up
out of the here is the lair of 'all the rivers of the -continent. We \Vero constantly fording,thtipa -
stone muskegs; we •
ay
Wetness was the habitual condition of Out collective trouser -legs, and a good share of 111031•
had hewn our glen of out! possessions. Personally; 1 could have got atong very comfortably with.he a -few less •
and scratched our rivers, and 1 fancy trest of the part} lett the same way, after the three hundred an.1
jambe jn the fallen cittty-firstit'd- +
,timber of the S+ask The party was„an-Alpine club party, htow'ever, usedto ----midi-Its, amt--eye-had •tr .
atcaleau .nddthe .definite purpose in view, which no amount of fords could discourage; to climb 'Moffitt,
tiled!)ltd out and tum Robson: No -white men had ever Leen kn.;wn to reachthe king of the. Canwilian,Rockies.6.
oft and into anti 1)r, Coleman of -Toronto University, had organized us from the members• of the
t}ungsin t. hadsble • Alpine Club, with this intenti•ut. ``'
times; we seen - i Finally we•.P'' '-t1 the last harrier, crowd thl la' 'ford, and swung:into the valley
the big Columbia` -'
Glacier, of the Grand Forks: Eight or ten -miles away t great Itincstone wedge rtf 'the king,
were inti 1:1,7011 feet up in -the air..buttressed acr.i'.s- the whole .valley, with a, fall bigger than
Ynately Mountsintc•d •iia ,ar3 roaring unnoticed at his feet, anal thewhole north side of him one{igan'tic, sheer,
with . olem Wil- • unbroken rock -faced. slide fro\ 7tinnacle to base, rose before our overawed -gaze. -The.
son, •base h and ;grand, isolated peak, cloaked tvith untold ages of snow, towering far above, all the other
Athabasca; beats had ted a aks of its rdtige, its high -flung crown alnlost touching heaven, its.penpen ticular: walls
our beasts in the, p
• 'high pastures oE• and overhanging glaciers brooding over the •deep .Y Alleys tivith awful calm. is one of the -'
the Big Horn and grandest sights imaginable to man.
the Goat and the We did not make the summit-tbat year, -for Mount Robson cloaks himself in storms,
Cariboo. yes, we and is •not sympathetic, towards venturesome- human ants, but we dill a great deal of
investigation ;it -timid hi. lower slopes:• . I. 'from my roving disposition. became the ex -
knew . that' trail tp .
the point of calling s
'it by its first name;
- and when we finally
campeil, on the
bank of theette,
and: after building
, a raft, gingerly.
• trusted ourselves
and our outfit .to
the mercies: of its
tumbling waters.
we almost sighed
with relief.
For a score or
more - of miles we
ft .flowed theMiette.
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1"541115 1NI I•A.l►H: Till STRI AM. PRI. RT LAR.. AtNlt PHI.
IN 4N1 R/.•• N TNR A5r14. P••
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w . plorer of the party, and was constantly wander• ing off o n solitary -jaunts. My •first -
1 • - t discovery was the beautiful lake that bears my name, and nestles at the foot Robson-
on
obsonon his western side. It t'fvals Lake Louise for beauty ati2l,in fact, the whole -region.
dear'•as Banff. Paradise Valley, Lake Louise, Yoho and Glacier are to the hetet of the
mountain -lover, without • doubt surpasses the beauties of all the known Canadian :Ups,
So fearful is the height of Mount Robson above this valley, andweisheer is its whole
face, that theavalanches slide from its vers' highest peak to withinli few yards of the•lake,
where they lie the year around, at an altitude of not more than two thousand five hundred
feet.-
On very side of the great " Valley of a Thousand -Falls a huge wall of perpendicular
cliffs, thousands of feet high. hems the valley -in closely. Here and there, on sheltered •
ledges, oatches of spruces relieve with -their dark greens, the greys of the rocks, while
everywhere the numerous stream-fr6.ln the great glaciers alt around plunge over the high
precipices in countless falls cd -spray. • A mighty tongue of ice lolls over a cliff at the• head'
of the Valley a'nd cure s -%i low as to reach the valley floor, while here and there in the
bottom of the valleyre huge springs'fr9m which flow full-fledged streams. A high-up
glacier on the -west side hasasueh a large field of snow at its source and flows down so steep
an incltne-that huge chunks of ice are constantly breaking off its precipitous front and
cr tog into the valley below. The most fearful avalanche., I ever saw came from this
g acier, and it took ten minutes by my watch for the foremost chunks of ice to reach
the valley bottom. •
ATS head of the valley"acrd-ter-the-north. rises -Murat Turner, a splendi(L.peak of
some twelve thousand feet altitude, while to the right. at an altitude of-hetsl•een two and
three thousand feet above the valley. the Grand Po.rks, swift flowing froth Berg Lake,
leaps from the cliff and forms a superb falls as high as Niagara, then -plunges in a number
of beautiful catar-
acts down a very
narrow gorge, till
it sweeps"across
the' 'floor .of the
• valley. And from
the Goat Trail,that ,
winds jn and out
among these over-
hanging cliffs,truly
the "Valley of . a
Thousand Falls" is
a marvel. of Alpine
scenery.
Failing to climb
Mount Robson in
1907, owing to
climatic conditions
our party returned
the nekt summer,
1x1 made several
hLero( tempts up
Mn1'NT ROBSON (). TNR toITn 141114R 1NRl5w.t W* 4' P )1.••.• P"' • •801 [4t.R TO SI MMIT, Tttw1Rne0 13.700
the ate of
fI/T IN TN■ AIR ASHY," P44 HInHRR THAN NIAGARA. TNR 1 IRONS MARKS TNR S,iM rip CAMP Mount Rob, --
HIONIBT-VP, 4154.•! WNI1H MR. KIN'NRY MAZI [Its ('I.IMR TO. }HR PRAR
traveller; w► niple•It,..,ses 114. r. I(
only. R.ep,tlar values npto
1101.50. (Tearing per (it.' 98
ptwir Q
UI pairs 11311/111 p te1lL 611t, flntrtu•r
Nt ie. sires from f1 to 111. Re slat
i� 2.98
•7. Sp eeisl bargain SI
per pair. ...... . ....
TNR SNOWY IIRAD Or MOUNT 11 RISRs 12.1101/PP.RT IN TNR AIR, AND IS CLOSRLY
w+T ..-y.n +n nno.T 5014011 All TO SRRM ALMOST A PART
OP TH. MAIN PRAM
31 cloven silk Flower.. Feath'r..
ting And Rucklr•. t•lesring now
at exactly - Heit-prlcs (it anulared anlle as.. only
grads. hswudled, 20 113., for
100
A FEW SUITABLE
Christmas Suggestions
tt:ight tutors. slittigiing days IH•turt• Christen/is. Hilt'•
you decided what to gite ' •R .
It post :ure still worryiut• tScsq.*, let us help von •with a
few 311gg est' 31111314• for a gest'elfin us1, We have a
136010ful Stock of the 13.44(-4ivality g.Nol. for Christ
tlt.lt•.Nu ('l«•.k. Price. ..
$2.30t41$ 1.60
A yyhaving Set. Price. 4.60 to 12.00
AnYmb rola. Prices.... '.... 3.50 to 10.00
A M twin Pen. Price.1.60 to 3.60
A Gold Scurf Pin. Prices ... ...- talo to 16.00
A pairof ('utY Link. Priee3...., , 1.35 1„ 7.50
1 Jtilit+•ii•y Briedi. ('rice.. ........ 3.00 to '5.50
t I.IN•ket. Triol•, 2.75 4.. 10.00
A 1'Itsin. Price. • 1.50 l''5.60
A Mignin. sting. ('rice. 5.50 i.' 3.000
A Match 11.1x. Prices
0
A Watch. Tepees .. .... 5.00 to 60.00
A Watch H..h. Prices ... . ' 1.25. t•r 6.50
Of lour thutg we 440' ce.ttu'a that you still
appreciate ons' 1•fftlrt•t to .how y..0 •tvtlrthy,.
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No troullIe
to show
our goods.
Open evenfgos
Store Brightly
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hat stork i. iit •n,K.••t lun'. iut•it lid%. It yt a (sill calf
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t'fl[int 11. Pt . ........... .60 to • 1.00
A-Ci•w ii "1'111-t't1t's .. TSS.. -3.00
�Ipuicur,• I'iere.11:hnn ,n•
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2 50 1.. 10.00
5004.' 160.00
200 4' 600
1 50 t.. 2.75
WALTER H. HARRI$ON
C. P. 1t. WATCH.tNSPECTOR.
WATCHMAKER. JE
ON THE SQUARE
LLER.AND OPTIC I/AN.
GODERICH.
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Holiday Gift Suggestions
There is no nerd sot Christmas IN•ing 3 4 I%isil: 11111e to anybody.
Those who hays. 111 )41.4:ye:e1.. found 41011c11lty ill snaking their gift
.eleetioni nee.i not worry iu the le.o.t thi•yc;u. \1, a:u•ly visit 10
uuF.flcre•'still w,1ve-till gift pa'ollcnl•.•
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1111'\•1':1IN PENS H4141dre.1. of ieople \4,,11,1 led,•tigllted
• ith'.nch a practical gilt. \I:\\ II't'IiE SI' l'S-ls•A+h,ly.. a
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Soap dogs. etc. 1'ON1ECTIONElil'• We havedelioion-.
rich 1'hosol,lt. ,ynd 11+n Boon. in Cooley holiday package....
I'V'ES• 4'1,11(hes, Pocket 144111 Iiia lilrok•. 41"1.11:u' linin 1t.n11.1-
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Iht� Is.xl•..
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Sncn•.wn• to .la:. Wilson 1;1111E1111'11. 4)\T
CURISTMAS PRESENTS 1
THAT ARE USEFUL
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. Look over this list
1'13 N1 tin 'topers
.Ten l.',uldies
Tea and Coffee Ports (nickel -
1137.o3•3 IKit,g;Ctltte: t:i1l..lte
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l'arlH,-'Iagnetic 1
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Butter Knives
Cake Forks
Pickle Ft rk+
Sugar Shells
('loving Sets
Serving 'I'rny.
Hockey Sk:tt.•, I Il•.kct tumid d 1
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Putter It ug.
11or.e Irlatikols
shaft 1 him... for l'nl tt'1 -
Stt•itlg;t.:,l Team 1tell•
Slane and 1►n•liln:vll l.,ot-
o-in.
Tungsten Elite tie Lamle,
Make your selection and visit
Fr ed Hunt's Hardware Store
Hamilton Street
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tA) `sten% t...'n H anis tiny. I ,vrt•aiiw.
sites 31 4.e1 44. with and withnnt
IIIh1A, regular pile' 1. Mts.' 85c
Hal bargain ,tuty....
ley ut'otbll mutes', i.174-4..vL 1. • 44
regular v 3 I n to •lt
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only t.
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