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  • -19- Aug. [August] 30, 1930. This A.M. [morning] took young pack rat and 2 chipmunks in traps on rock ledge N.W. [northwest] Shot large [female symbol] whistler on same slide. Whistlers are moving about a lot just now some are coming to the lower burrow. About noon it started snowing and by 5.30 when there was a let up there was about 10 inches on the ground. Have not seen anybody since Friday week, hope Warden shows up soon with mail. Going out Wednesday unless snow gets much deeper in which case probably Monday. Aug. [August] 21, 1930. Still snowing 18" on the ground. Picked up traps and headed for town. Arrived in Banff at noon. Hotel full up but managed to get room in Homestead. Sept. [September] 1, 1930. Got horses and went in for my outfit. Reached camp at 11.30 arrived back in Banff 6 o'clock. Sept. [September] 2, 1930. Tried to get in touch with Mr. [Hamilton Mack] Laing - cabled him in evening. Tried to get my outfit brought from Pack Shack to Warehouse. Cascade Basin, 7000' The Cascade Basin is a small amphitheatre directly behind (north) of the western shoulder of Cascade Mountain. It is approximately 8 miles by trail from Banff and north and west of that town. The basin itself is about a mile in length and 100 to 200 yards in width. On the two sides there are steep hills or rather gigantic rock cliffs about 2000 feet high, those on the west side being the more precipitous. AT the south the valley ends blindly at the foot of Cascade Peak. Vegetation consisting of spruce and balsam fir and grassy meadows with clumps of alpine willow, extends about half way up the basin the rest of the way is a tumbled mass of scree without vegetation of any sort. The north-eastern end is open and looks out on the Sawback range across the valley of 40 mile Creek. Here the trees are thicker. There is a large Eagle's nest on a ledge near the summit of the cliffs on the west side. Judging by the number of skeletons and droppings in the basin, cougar and coyote are common in the winter and take a heavy toll of the sheep and goats that about on the surrounding slopes.
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