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[[underlined]] Bake Oven [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] June 28. [[/underlined]] Followed up Cow Creek to the high mesa and across a wide stretch of tableland, down into a gulch and over another ridge to Bake Oven, then across grassy slopes about 7 miles farther and made a dry camp. Came 27 miles Had to travel slowly on account of rough roads and long hills.

The country is high prairie sloping toward the Des Chutes and cut across by numerous deep, rocky gulches and canyons. Basaltic lava protrudes along the gulches and in rocky crests to the ridges - The soil is generally mellow and rich. Sagebrush is scarce. Two species of Bigelovia, grass, and plains plants make up the characteristic vegetation of the Plains of Columbia. A few willows & cottonwoods grow in the gulches & many shrubs. Syringia bushes are abundant & loaded with flowers. Thorn, Amelanchier, rose, chokechery and clematis are common.

Sonoran plants predominate.

The peculiar mounds of lava rock regions are numerous all along.

Aneroid at morning camp read [[strikethrough]] 2900 [[/strikethrough]] 1550 on mesa 3200. At Bakeoven 22, at Camp 2000.

Clear and warm.