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a mile wide and two thousand feet high there was one solid, unbroken Niagara of glittering, coruscant ice and snow. Like a curtain strung with diamonds and pearls and opals it streamed, while the shower of flaming colours was reflected in the...
2004-08-05
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for luck, Jim clambered off up the cliff and planted it under his "likely rock," Roos meantime setting up in a favourable position below.
Whether Jim's "tobaccanalian libation" had anything to do with it or not, this time luck was with us. The...
2004-08-05
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The lake was deeply shadowed before we were finally at liberty to take up again the sartorics of "Lohengrin" ; but it was not that fact, nor yet the not entirely prohibitive difficulty of making shining armour out of tin cans, that nipped that...
2004-08-05
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finally proved impossible for him to get away from business, and asking me to go ahead and see the Big Bend trip through without him. In the event I decided to continue on down the river he would be glad to have his cameraman accompany me as long...
2004-08-05
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or five days in Windermere and vicinity, giving an opportunity we otherwise would have missed to meet and become acquainted with the always kindly and hospitable and often highly distinguished people of this beautiful and interesting community....
2004-08-05
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which I was supposed to be striding was really on my left, but Roos explained that some sort of a movie Median law made it imperative always to exit to right.) Then we went over to make the cabin shots.
The owner of the cabin was away at the...
2004-08-05
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Roos was young and experienced, and lacking in both finesse and subtlety. I granted that this wouldn't have cramped his style much in doing "old home town stuff;" but farther afield it was electric with dangerous possibilities. Driving back to the...
2004-08-05
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waters were sufficiently above the lower southern barriers to give it drainage in that direction. At that time it was doubtless the main source of the Kootenay River, and its waters did not reach the Columbia until after a long and devious...
2004-08-05
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formed this remarkable feat, only to lose the historic little craft later in one of the treacherous canyons of the Kootenay. His also was the distinction, after maintaining an intermittent service between the Columbia and Kootenay for a number of...
2004-08-05
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with a bandaged jaw. "If yer gets inter yer boat an' lets it go in that ten-twent'-thirt' mile current, it's a simpl' problum of 'rithmatick. If yer ain't dished in a souse-hole, yer has ter make Revelstoke insider one day. As yer has ter do sum...
2004-08-05
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CHAPTER VI
I. RUNNING THE BEND Through Surprise Rapids WE pushed off from Beavermouth at three o'clock of the afternoon of September twenty-ninth. We had hoped for an early start, but the erratically running local freight, six or eight hours...
2004-08-05
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on the fringes of the movies knows, the temperaments of both stars and directors are things that require frequent harrowing to keep them in good working order.
Roos' filming of the unloading of the boat was the best thing he did on the trip....
2004-08-05
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"Nothing doing," Blackmore replied decisively ; "going straight through." The ranger grinned and shook his grizzled head. "You're the man to do it," he said; "but jest the same, I'm glad it's you and not me that has the job."
The station agent...
2004-08-05
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spruce, hemlock, balsam and fir. Yellow, in a score of shades, was the prevailing colour, but here and there was a splash of glowing crimson from a patch of chin-chinick or Indian tobacco, or a mass of dull maroon where a wild rose clambered over...
2004-08-09
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Image captions: WHERE ANDY JUST MISSED DROWNING IN SURPRISE RAPIDS (above)
LOOKING THROUGH THE PINES AT SURPRISE RAPIDS (centre) OF SECOND FALL OF SURPRISE RAPIDS (below) --page break-- men to take it out of the water, lift it over forty...
2004-08-09
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Image caption: Courtesy of Byron Harmon, Banff THE LAKE OF HANGING GLACIERS, TAKEN FROM THE ICE WALLS, LOOKING NORTH --page break-- run into the "continuity" of the "sportsman" picture, he admitted ; but he thought that Chester might use it, with...
2004-08-04
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Image caption: Courtesy of Byron Harmon, Banff WHERE MY PARTY FOREGATHERED WITH HARMON'S ON THE SHORE OF THE LAKE OF THE HANGING GLACIER --page break-- it couldn't get in standing up, it forthwith lay down on its side, or even rolled over on its...
2004-08-09
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my mythical companion, and then striding back, getting my roll of blankets and exiting in a final fadeout. As we had neglected to provide a roll of blankets for this shot, we had to improvise one from such material as was available. I forget all...
2004-08-09
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Image captions: TRAPPER'S CABIN WHERE WE FOUND SHELTER FOR THE
NIGHT (above)
WHERE WE LANDED ABOVE SURPRISE RAPIDS (centre) WHERE WE TIED UP AT "EIGHT MILE" (below) --page break-- Canoe River way. I had promised Captain Armstrong not to...
2004-08-09
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CHAPTER VII
II. RUNNING THE BEND Kinbasket Lake and Rapids IT continued slushing all night and most of the next day, keeping us pretty close to camp. Andy, like the good housewife he was, kept snugging up every time he got a chance, so that...
2004-08-09
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which it had been hung on the log of a cabin—and a corset. The latter seemed hardly worth salving, as it appeared—according to Blackmore—to be a "military model" of a decade or so back, and the steel-work was badly rusted.
However, it was...
2004-08-09
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registering "unbounded wonderment," but the light was never right for it up to the morning of our departure, and then there wasn't time.
It rained and snowed all that night and most of the following day. During the afternoon of the latter the...
2004-08-09
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I refused straightaway, on the ground that I had signed up to act the part of a light comedy sportsman and not a heavy mourner. Blackmore and Andy were more amenable. In rehearsal, however, the expressions on their honest faces were so wooden and...
2004-08-09
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continued as rigid and unrelaxing as the bushman's boomerang, whose shape he so nearly approximated. Then Andy wrought the miracle with a simple "laying on of hands." What he really did was to thaw out the frozen rear end of the fish by holding it...
2004-08-09
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the cascade of Trident Creek sprang into life again, but now a squirt of yellow ochre where before it was a flutter of white satin. Rapidly augmenting, it spread from wall to wall of the rocky gorge, discharging to the bosky depths of the delta...
2004-08-09
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