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The slope is steep after reaching the base of the range, & the trail is rocky. This range is very different from the mountains west of the valley. It is rocky, broken, jagged, and of many different kinds of rocks. There are granite, quartz, schist, shale, marble, lava rock & others.
All are mixed & irregular & present a great variety of colors. An important feature is their bareness & dryness.
Water is scarce, I found a little stream running a few rods high up in a cañon. There are numerous plants scattered over the Mts. but small, dry ones & far apart. There are Piñons on the higher parts and also snow.
Atriplex confertifolia, an Artemisia and similar desert plants characterize the lower region. I took altitudes of all the plant zones I could, saving specimens of kind I do not know. Larrhea mexicana is common along the base. & extends from 125 feet above the R.R. upwards for 875 feet. It is not found on the west side of valley.
The Inyo Mts. are only a southern extension of the White Mts. They are a typical desert range.

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