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[[underlined]] Rock Creek [[/underlined]]

balsamifera, willows & alders. High lava cliffs border the canyon. The bottom is narrow but little patches have been cleared all along for fields. The creek is rapid & crooked with stony bottom & high banks.

[[underlined]] June 16 [[/underlined]]  Rock Creek camp.

Staid all day and shot S. chrysodeirus & set more traps & made up skins.

Found lots of mole ridges in the creek bottoms and coon tracks along the banks.

A clear, warm day.

[[underlined]] June 17 [[/underlined]] Tried to get an early start but after getting in our lines of traps & helping pack wagon did not get under way till 6:30.

Followed up a side canyon about 4 miles & out on top of the plateau 1400 feet above camp. Had a fine view of Mt. Hood & Mt. Adams and a more distant view of St. Helens. Found mostly Transition plants on top. Lots of Lewisia in full flower on the patches of lava rock.
Found Wyethia amplexicaulis.

Descended another gulch to Lone Rock, 1000 feet below and then climbed the hill beyond 1350 feet to top of lava plateau & then down 550 feet into Lost Valley, then up a long slope to 200 feet higher and then down along a creek about [[strikethrough]] 1000 [[/strikethrough]] 800 feet and up over another ridge 900 feet & then down to Fossil 1150 feet lower.

Transcription Notes:
"S. chrysodeirus"=Spermophilus chrysodeirus=type of ground squirrel. "Lewisia" and "Wyethia amplexicaulis" are flowering plants.