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94 green conifers. But it is under the cloud-balancings that Sir Donald is wonderful to watch. On a sunny morning early, you may look out towards the mountain and there, hanging over its head but not touching it, is a white cloud firm as some firm snowy texture and shaped like a monk's cowl with a cloak .spread solidly out in the blue. You may see it stay there for an hour or more with slow movements on its farther edge, poised like a bird over its nest, or, to change the simile, like a white, white arch in pure cerulean blue. You may spend a week of fine weather at Glacier House, and every morning watch the thin mist which gathers in the narrow valley at night lift in drift of thinnest violet-grey cloud and play idly about the close green forest spires and creep upward over rock to vanish under the sun's morning rays in the upper heights.

Sir Donald Glacier—Name: In relation to Mt. Sir Donald.

Altitude: 5.500—8,000 feet.

Location: Directly below the south-east arête on the Beaver slope. It flows between Terminal Peak and the Peak of Mt. Sir Donald and drains to the Beaver River, and is not to be confounded with the Vaux Glacier seen from the Hotel.

Sir Sandford, Mt.—Name: By the Topographical Survey after Sir Sandford Fleming, K.C.M.G., Hon. President, Alpine Club of Canada.

Altitude: 11,634 feet.

Location: A little west of north of Rogers Peak and 27 miles distant from it.

The first ascent has yet to be made (1911). Several attempts are on record and several partial ascents. In 1908 Messrs. Comstock and Palmer with Manuel Dainard, a local guide of Golden, all members of the A.C.C., made the first attempt, only reaching an altitude of t),500 feet at timber-line. The next year they returned to the attack, the party re-inforced by Prof. H. C. Parker also of the A.C.C., again failing. In 1910, Mr. Palmer, accompanied by Professors Holway and Butters, were again on the mountain and made some progress in its exploration, but failed of the summit. The same year the Rev. A. M. Gordon and Messrs. J. P. Forde and P. D. McTavish, all of the A.C.C., went in from Six Mile Creek via Sunbeam Lake; but owing to floods and disaster, they did not get to the base of the mountain. However, the reconnoitring and climbing done during these three seasons have added to a knowledge of the mountain and of the weather in its region. No doubt the giant so long defiant will fall beneath the tread of the mountaineers who have renewed the attack year by year.

Route: There are two routes to Mt. Sir Sandford.

(1) Starting from Six Mile Creek Station, twenty miles by railway east of Glacier House: ascend the ridge to the north and follow the "Esplanade" to the pass leading to Sunbeam Lake; then descend Spinster Creek to Gold Creek which flows below the mountain on the south side. (2) From Beavermouth: descend the Columbia River by canoe or boat to the mouth of Gold Stream and follow its valley to the base of the mountain. From Sunbeam Lake on the first route and from the mouth of Gold Stream on the second, all supplies and camp outfit must be carried on the shoulders.

Time required: Everything depends upon the weather, but a