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Oct. 6 Sunday

" [[Ditto for: Oct.]] 7 Finished my report, packed a few specimens & my trunk so as to send it to town tomorrow or next day while I go around towards Turkey Tank to get altitudes of trees.
Cold, rainy, & windy all day.
The top of mountain down to timber was covered with snow in the morning but it all went off from this side by noon.

" [[Ditto for: Oct.]] 8 Took a bag of biscuits & left Bucklars in morning. Came to Ft. Maroni & took the first barometer reading for a base. Then struck off east for the S. slope of the mountain, rode my horse up the 9150 feet & then climbed to 10100 feet where the popples ceased. I could gain nothing more without going to timber line.
Came down & across to the north side of [[underlined]] Elden Mt., Which is not a mesa & is not called a mesa by the people. [[/underlined]] Did not go up this as it seemed useless & was getting late.
So I followed down & around to near Elden Spring.