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[[blank page]] [[end page]] [[start page]] [[underlined]] To Sierra Valley [[/underlined]] [[underlined]] June 29 [[/underlined]] Started for [[underlined]] Sierra Valley [[/underlined]] crass lots. Came over ridge north to small stream & pretty meadows, followed up it to its head & over flat divide & down a similar little creek with meadows to the east. Traveled through clean, open forests of Abies magnifica & P. murrayana & P. monticola full of pailes & meadows down very gradual descent for 5 or 6 miles. Then came to abrupt & rocky descent for about 2 miles down to edge of Sierra Valley. No trail & the slope covered with chaparral. Had hard work to get down but made it in course of 2 or 3 hours. Left Canadian zone at about 4600 feet on east slope where we struck Pinus ponderosa & Libocedrus & left P. murrayana & Abies magnifica. Did not get this limit very accurately as I was kept busy looking for a way through the brush & around boulders. Saw one bear track & when we got down found the gulch was called the Bear's Den because so many bears lived in it. Came out into [[underlined]] Sierra Valley 3 miles north of Sierraville [[/underlined]], traveled S. 4 mi. & camped at [[underlined]] Hot Springs [[/underlined]], a mile S of Sierraville. Came about 10 miles