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Rh Location: Easterly of two high peaks on the north side of Cougar Brook near its head.

First Ascent: By Topographical Survey in 1902.

Route: (1) By Rogers Pass, Bear Creek and Baloo Pass, thence traversing high up on the slopes of Cougar Brook Valley.

(2) By Loop Trail, Cougar Valley Trail, past the Caves of Cheops, and thence ascending from directly below the peaks.

Time required: By route (1), a long day; by route (2) 3 hours from the Caves. The ascent can be made more comfortably by spending the night in the cabin at the Caves. Unless a skilled climber, one guide is necessary.

View: Notable views from this summit are Cougar Creek Valley and the southerly Valley of Mountain Creek.

Cedar Station—Name: By the C.P.R. Company, with reference to Cedar Creek.

Altitude: Rail-level, 3,188 feet. A station of the C.P.R. on the west side of Beaver River Valley, 13% miles northerly from Glacier.

Cedar Creek—Name: Local, with reference to cedars growing along its banks. A small mountain torrent joining the Beaver River close to Cedar Station.

Cheops Mt.—Name: By Otto J. Klotz, with reference to the Great Pyramid of Cheops, from the pyramidal form of its extreme peak.

Altitude: 8,506 feet.

Location: Immediately west of Rogers Pass summit, between Bear Creek and Illecillewaet River.

First Ascent: By S. E. S. Allen and W. D. Wilcox in 1902.

Route: (1) From Glacier House the route is generally straight from the summit of Rogers Pass. (2)—Another route is by Baloo Pass. (3)—And another is via Napoleon Shoulder.

Time required: Routes (1) and (3), 4 hours; route (2), 6 hours. Unless skilled climbers, one guide is necessary.

View: Owing to its central position and medium altitude, Mt Cheops commands the most superb all-round view in the vicinity. The climb is especially recommended to photograph hunters. In every direction magnificent scenes may be taken by the camera. It is to be remembered that the sights from very high altitudes are interesting, chiefly for their wide expanse over high ranges. Only in clear and sunny air does a vast chaos of high snowy peaks present delicate indescribable color; and the valleys are hidden far below. The most beautiful mountain landscape is always that seen from lower and medium altitude which disclose forest and stream and lake and the changing atmospheric hues of the lower valleys and wooded mountain-recesses.

In the immediate mountaineering district, Mt. Cheops is arbiter of the weather: and according to local tradition, there is no appeal from that arbitrament. A cloud up n this summit decides for rain. Once a young scoffer set out for Mt. Rogers in defiance of this omen and found himself short of its crest in a steady rain that lasted two days. He returned to the hotel soaked to the skin.

Clarke Peak—Name: By the Topographical Survey after Charles Clarke, a Swiss guide, stationed at Glacier in 1902.

Altitude: 9,954 feet.