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Rh at the same rates obtaining in Golden. Also, there are local guides who know where the best fishing is to be found in the streams, and where the caribou, goat, bear and other game, big and little, most frequent the hills on both sides of the river.

The population is about 4.500 souls (1911), and there is a brisk atmosphere of business on the streets. Revelstoke had the first local mountaineering club to affiliate with the Alpine Club of Canada.

Mountains and Places of Interest Reached from Revelstoke.

Mt. Begbie—Name: Called for Sir ^Mathew Begbie, Chief Justice of the old Crown Colony of British Columbia. As Judge Begbie in the sixties, nis Government sent him to the lawless Cariboo Gold Mines up the Fraser River, with instructions to establish law and order. He was another Lord Braxfield. the renowned "hanging judge," with a difference: Begbie feared God but regarded not man. Tradition says that he condemned the criminal without mercy on a Saturday; and on a Sunday, after doing his genuine devotions in public service, went into the woods and chose the tree upon which to hang him on a Monday. By this method of unremitting justice, the evil-doer was terrified into restraint and the country made safe for the honest and law-abiding miner.

Altitude: 8,946 feet—or 7.443 feet above the valley.

Location: South-west of Revelstoke, in the Gold Range, west of the Columbia River and south of the railway: distance from Revelstoke, 8 miles. Route: Crossing the bridge, Mt. Begbie is reached by a waggon-road and trail to its base. Time required for the round expedition: 2 days. A bivouac can be made at timber-line on the first night; and the ascent of the upper part of the mountain, the descent, and return to Revelstoke will occupy the second day.

The mountain is triple-peaked The main peak was first climbed in June, 1907, by the late Rev. J. C. Herdnian. one of the earliest Canadian enthusiasts in native mountaineering, the Rev. J. R. Robertson and Rupert Haggen, with Edouard Feuz. Jr., Swiss guide from Glacier. They slept out two nights and spent three days on the expedition. Although the weather was stormy at times, with considerable rain and snow, the climbing was not very difficult. Mt. Begbie has a number of fairly good-sized glaciers and is well worth the attention of climbers. The two minor peaks on the massif were still virgin in 1910. View: Mt. Begbie stands up conspicuously above the surrounding mountains of the Gold Range. From its upper slopes and summit, there is an especially good view of the Columbia Valley north towards the Big Bend, and of the Clach-na-coodin group of peaks rising out of the wide snowfield with the same Celtic name.

Mt. Cartier—Name: By Order in Council, after Sir George Cartier, one of the fathers of Canadian Confederation. Altitude: 8,562 feet. Location: In the Selkirks, 7 miles south-east of Revelstoke from where it is seen prominently; overlooks the Columbia Valley. Route: Mt. Cartier is most conveniently climbed from a point named "Green Slide" on the Arrow Lakes Branch of the C. P. Railway 9 miles from the town. Time required: 2 days will allow a leisurely round expedition. There are small glaciers. A guide