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[[underlined]] Blue Mts [[/underlined]] 
crest of the ridge till we reached a point at 7000 feet about 2 miles south of the peak of Strawberry Butte & camped by a creek that seems to flow S.E. to the Malheur River. Had no trails all day & did some hard climbing but found open woods most of the way. Pinus murryana had been burned & fallen in places & found bad windfalls.
  Camped at 6 P.M. got supper & set 40 traps.
  A cool day with thundershowers.

[[underlined]] July 13 [[/underlined]] Went up mts. to top of main ridge. Could see down into the John Day Valley and over much country. Covilles aneroid read 8000 feet on top of range. Big snowbanks are numerous. The trees are dwarfed & of timberline species. Vegetation is beginning to grow but few flowers are out. Much of the ground is bare. The crest is rocky & rough, mostly stratified rocks. Glaciers have plowed out some of the gulches long ago but most are sharp bottomed from erosion. Rock slides & [[strikethrough]] tree slides [[/strikethrough]] snow slides are common. A few little green lakes were seen in the gulch east of the Butte.
  Coville & Allen went to top of Strawberry Butte & found it 9100 feet. It has a timberline but it may be only from the bare rocks.
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