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78 peak. Ascend the face at the north end and traverse the ridge to its summit.

Climb: snow, rock and ice.

Time required: 7 hours. Of the climb Dr. Herdman writes:

"Next came a difficulty which I have never seen before or since in any mountain range: a crack, three to six feet wide, separated the shoulder we were on from the main mass and the walls looked perpendicular. This sharp cut into the mountain may have been limited but where we stood, because of the rough boulders, there was no way of getting past and I imagined for some moments that our climb was completely blocked." (See Canadian Alpine Journal vol. I, No. 1, p. 105.)

View: As a view-point Macoun is of great interest. It commands the entire Illecillewaet and Deville Névé: sweeps the Beaver Valley up and down, overlooks Bald Mountain and the Dogtooth and Spillimacheen Mountains and peeps into Glacier Circle. It is specially recommended as an expedition. But one must start early on account of the long tramp across the Illecillewaet Névé.

Marion Lake—Name: Bv W. S. Green, after his daughter.

Altitude: 5,660 feet.

Location: On the north face of Mt. Abbott above Glacier House.

Route: Reached by a good pony-trail starting directly behind the hotel.

Time required: 1 hour. Along the trail are some very fine views through vistas of forest. The lake is a sad-coloured little tarn of about five acres area, nestling in a rocky basin. At the southern margin is a rock slide, where a big slice has been detached from the Hank of Mt. Abbott and has come crashing down to the lake's basin. From this point a charming alpine landscape greets the eyes. Across its placid surface, and growing out of the bright emerald marsh grass, rises a fringe of straight and shapely dark-hued spruce, between whose high interspaces show the snowy mountains of the range opposite. Its charm is enhanced a hundred fold when the whole picture is repeated in miniature in the lake.

McBean, Mt.—Name: By Topographical Survey: origin unknown.

Altitude: 9,501 feet.

Location: Between Van Horne Brook and Incomappleux River.

Route: (1) Reached from Glacier via Asulkan Trail and Pass, Geikie Glacier and Creek, and Van Horne Brook. All camp-outfit must be carried. For novices one guide is necessary.

Time required: 3 days, camping for 2 nights in the valley of Van Horne Brook.

Route: (2) May also be reached via Flat Creek and Pass, Teoparuy Slide, and Incomappleux River. Ponies can be used by this route to carry the camp-outfit to the base of the mountain.

Time required: 5 days. A guide is necessary.

Climb: chiefly rock. The mountain is a very prominent one seen from the Asulkan Pass south of the great bend of the Incomappleux River. There are two important peaks: Findhorn, 9,501 feet and Tomatin Peak, 9,445 feet. On the east slopes are the Van Horne Glacier and Ne've', and a large unnamed snowfield draining westward.