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[[underlined]] Note [[underlined]]  June 11, we went up in the Bear Lodge Mts. from west side and found the [[underlined]] oaks [[underlined]] ranging from base to near summit continuously and they gradually dwarf towards the summit.

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[[underlined]] Sundance [[underlined]]

I saved specimen but could get no acorns. The fire had killed it all about 2 years ago & burned up all the acorns & the young sprouts are not yet old enough to bear. It grows in great thickets & only above the pines, ranges from 2 to 6 feet high. Oaks at base of Mts. are common but do not reach far up into the pines. The pine belt seperates the two oaks for about 1000 feet.

Set traps in gulch above camp. Packed specimens.

At Sundance the aneroid read 4550 at 7 AM. On top of Warren Peak 6400 at 12 & on return to camp at Sundance at 5 PM 4675. Collected several species of boreal plants on peak.

[[underlined]] June 9 [[underlined]] Rained hard all night, the creek up, gumbo like grease, traps all knocked out, grub wet & a nasty morning generally. Could not move camp on account of gumbo so made up skins & set more traps in gulch. Loring packed up to leave us on the morning stage. Cleared up in P.M.

[[underlined]] June 10, [[underlined]] Sunday. Loring left on the stage at 5 AM. Dutcher & I packed up and came around to south side of the Bear Lodge Mts. and camped at the base, and did nothing the rest of day.

[[underlined]] June 11 [[underlined]]. Found we could get up Warren Peak by following an old road around farther to west side of Mtns. Came about 5 miles and camped at west base of the peak. Took traps & went up & set them above timberline but found only poor signs of Arvicola. They have covered the highest part of Mts. under the snow but now have gone back along streams.

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"gumbo" is a sticky clay soil, so wet gumbo would be unpleasant indeed.