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[[strikethrough]] To Sierra Valley [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] June 28 [[/underlined]] Goldman caught 10 little Peromyscus [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] one Sorex [[blank]], & a Chipmunk.
Started up the gulch leading east at right angles to stage road & followed an old road about 4 miles to [[strikethrough]] camp [[/strikethrough]] a big meadow at 7000 feet & camped high up in Canadian zone with snow banks all around us & hemlocks growing not far above. The big meadow is called [[underlined]] Lincoln Valley [[/underlined]] &  the creek we suppose is Lincoln Creek. No one lives here & no stock is here now though sheep are usually pastured here. It is said that some plant killed many of the sheep last year & none have been brought in this year.
The big meadow is surrounded by high ridges of lava & cinder & volcanic rock that seem like the rim of a big old crater.  Most of the range is granite. We climbed to top of the highest part of the rim west of meadow where we found much snow, some hemlocks, and a few bluegrouse. at about 8000 feet.  Had a fine view over Sierra Valley to the N.E. & of Sierra Buttes to the S.W. & over timber covered ridges all around