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OUTDOOR SKETCHING —

SUMMER EXPERIENCES ARE ALWAYS OF IN-
TEREST AND WE ARE GRATEFUL TO MRS. BELL
FOR CARRYING US UP WITH HER INTO THE
CLEAR, CRISP ATMOSPHERE OF THE CANADIAN

ROCKIES .
ee ROCKIES” ANA

It was my great good luck to be able
to go to the camp of the Alpine Club of
Canada, which was held this year at Mt.
Assiniboine.We have belonged tothe A.C.

for a good many years and once before
have been to Mt. Assiniboine so that we
determined, if possible, not to miss
this year's camp, as we knew from ex-
perience how good it would be.

A Vancouver friend, Bileen DesBrisay,
my son Gordon and I set out from Banff
one morning about the middle of July by
car for seven miles,then by trail about
eight miles toa camp in the Brewster
Creek Valley, where we spent the night.
The next day was said tobe a hard one,
as the trailto Mt.,Assiniboine was about
twenty miles long, and over two rather
high passes,Brewster Pass and Og Pass,
so we decidedto take two horses between
the three of us and to ride and walk by
turns. We got along quite well except
that the day turned out wet and we gota
thorough soaking, especially on top of
Brewster Pass which certainly presented
a forbidding scene under the circum-
stances in which we saw it that day.The
trail leading over desolate looking
piles of rock and patches of snow with
the rain and snow coming down out of a

gloomy sky. Later on we found that it
was a most delightful place, an upland
where beautiful little alpine plants

grew close to the ground and the wind
was always blowing across the pass.

ARTIST GETTING GOAT OF MOUNT ASSINI~
BOINE AS ONE WILLIAM SEES IT. (NOTE
DIAGONAL BALANCE).

How-
ever,we were very glad to reach camp,to
be welcomed by friends and cups of tea
and blazing campfires,to be allocatedto
a tent spread with sweet smelling fir
boughs, and dry out blankets which also
had got a bit wet coming in on the pack
horse.

The camp was pitched among larch
trees close to Lake Magog which is one
of the many lakes at the foot of Mount
Assiniboine. It was, of course, chosen
at first as a climbing centre but the
beauty of the place entered into the
choice too.

Mt. Assiniboine is called "The Canadi
an Matterhorn" and there is a great re-
semblance in the shape of the two moun-
tains, though Mt, Assiniboine is not so
high as the Matterhorn,being about 11,
000 ft. compared with 15,000 odd. Both
are pyramids of rock and snow with a
definite horn shape towards the summit
and both have the same austere appear-
ance towering above their glaciers.

Mt. Assiniboine looks so very aloof,
and far above all humanconcerns ,and yet
those who have climbed it (which I did
not attempt) said it was not a very dif
ficult mountain,only long and strenuous
and a little dangerous on account of the
very rotten rock. All the rock in that
section ofthe Rockies is very loose and
was described as like climbing on thous-
ands of dinner plates piled loosely on

top of each other. There were other
mountains in the group all of which
were climbed from the camp, Mt. Magog,

Terrapin, naiset, Wedgewood, Sturdee,
The Marshall, Mt. Towers and Wonder Peak.
The latter is a marvellous viewpoint
though it is not so high as some of the
others. ( Climb to Page 8)