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[[underline]] Big Snowy Mts. [[/underline]]

the top of the main ridge, 100 feet higher than the first peak. Crossed over the main ridge to a small snowbank on north side where we got water in holes at edge of snow & by eating snow & camped & set traps about 100 feet below the summit. Slept in a clump of dwarf spruces.

The top of the range is mostly barren & dry. great fields of broken rock show hardly any signs of vegetation. Timber comes to top of the range along [[strikethrough]] nort [[/strikethrough]] west half. There is a good grass for feed along the edge of the north slope.

The whole range seems to be a hard limestone with occasional[[strikethrough]]ly[[/strikethrough]] fossils of old forms of life. The strata are nearly horizontal at the top with only a slight dip to the north. Numerous funnel or well shaped sink holes occur on the summit. some are deep and contain snow down 20 feet or so. The broken rock is in small scales, which on level places are usually arranged on edge. There seem to be no openings in the ledge rock & the shingle is in so small pieces that no cavities occur & no cover is offered for Lagomys.

Dryas octopetala is the commonest plant on the top, dry areas. It grows in strips & beds. is in blossom on north slope. The first I ever saw to know. Sheep & deer tracks around snowbanks. Tamias heard & seen at timberline. Arvicola holes are abundant. 

Killed a Dendragapus at snowbank & saw more.

So smokey we could not see to bottom of Mts.