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[[underlined]] To Big Snowy Mts [/[underlined]]

[[underlined]] Aug. 21. [[/underlined]] Caught only Sitomys.

Country about the same as yesterday - dry & baked & alkaline. There is plenty of grass but it is becoming very dry except in the gulches. Coal crops out in numerous places, but only poor quality of lignite.

Surface rolling or in long slopes. A few trees along some of the streams. No pine hills till we reach the foot of the Mts. Passed a ranch on Swimming Woman Creek & another at a halfway point & another on Careless Creek. Followed up the west side of Careless Creek across long, smoothe mesa about 8 miles & over onto head of Timber Creek & up a long, [[strikethrough]] co [[/strikethrough]] narrow valley in to cañon at base of Mts. Found no water in Timber Creek but found a couple of springs up at base of Mts. & camped in thick spruce timber at head of wagon navigation. Most of the timber is douglass spruce, a little Picea & lower down it is mostly Pinus p. scopulorum & Populus tremuloides. & P. angustifolia. Camped late & only set the beartrap. Found lots of deer & bear tracks.

A hot day & it seems good to get into timber again.

[[underlined]] Aug. 22. [[/underlined]] Set out a line of traps at camp & in P.M. took our traps & each a blanket & lunch and started up the mountains to camp & set traps on top. The Mts. are too steep to get a horse up. It was a steep, hard climb of 2500 feet from camp to first peak & took us 2 1/2 hours. Then crossing a saddle we reached a big snowbank where we got our first drink of water & then went to