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June 2 Started up the Mts. at 7:30 in morning on a horse with a bag of provisions, traps, blanket, & gun. Reached [[underlined in red]] Archies Fork [[/underlined in red]], where Mount & I camped in 1888 at 3 P.M. & the Steel Mill 5 miles beyond at 4:30.
Camped & set traps for mice & Thomomys, Grass is splendid at the fork of the [[underlined in red]] E. & W. branches of Smiths fork [[/underlined in red]] where I camped. Only little patches of snow in shady places, Lots of little creeks.
Thick pine & spruce timber all around,
Willows along creek, popples in places.
The road is full of Bear tracks, some big ones, one 6 1/2 inches wide across ball of foot. Saw two Antelope & two Deer 
Flowers are very numerous & pretty along the road. The air is loaded with perfume from the different species of Phlox
A pleasant day but a long, slow ride of [[underlined in red]] 30 miles [[/underlined in red]]. Frost in morning at the ranch, a cool evining in the Mts. with only the an old shanty walls to keep off the wind.
Cooked my supper of bacon & oatmeal & bread & made a bed in the corner of the shanty with some pine boughs.