Viewing page 47 of 77

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

[[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