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evidently very old. The circle is probably 5 or 6 miles across. Streams lead out of it to the north through a narrow gap. and down to Smoke Creek Valley.

The upper part of the mountain is covered with snow except where blown from exposed ridges. A great part of this is new snow, but old drifts lie along sheltered slopes many feet deep. and the gulches are full of old frozen snow. Streams break out about 2000 feet below the summit and flow down all of the gulches. The top is still frozen.

The mountain is relatively barren. A narrow belt of Pinus flexilis fills the Hudsonian Zone & on N.E., or snowy slopes, comes down nearly through Canadian. It forms a good timberline of much dwarfed trees at about 1000 feet below the summit on the S.W. Below this patches of Circocarpus ledefolius covere certain [[porite?]] slopes & the dry warm slopes - but a great part of the slopes is just sagebrush. A few little plants grow on the summit. and a yellow lichen covers much of the rocks.