If any of the band of Piegans appeared one of the men was to ride up the canyon with the information, the other was to follow the band till they camped and then ride back till he should meet his comrades.

They divided up the grub into two parts and Cameron and the interpreter took their way up the canyon.
The canyon consisted of a deep cleft across a series of ranges of hills or low mountains.

Through it ran a rough breakneck trail once used by the Indians and trappers but now abandoned since the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway through the Kicking Horse Pass and the opening of the Government trail through the Crow's Nest.

From this which had once been the main trail other trails led westward into the Kootenays and eastward into the Foothill country.

At times the canyon widened into a valley, rich in grazing and in streams of water, again it narrowed into a gorge, deep and black, with rugged sides above which only the blue sky was visible, and from which led cavernous passages that wound into the heart of the mountains, some of them large enough to hold a hundred men or more without crowding.