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[[underlined]] Web[[strikethrough]] b [[/strikethrough]]er [[Weber]] Lake & Independence Lake [[/underlined]]  

[[underlined]] July 2 [[/underlined]]  Descended 400 feet in a mile & a half & reached Webber Lake, a beautiful sheet of blue water a mile wide lying in a park like valley of meadows & forest surrounded by snowy peaks & ridges.  Pinus murrayana is the only tree observed in the bottom part of the valley & it forms clean groves and forest strips between the deep green meadows parks and creeks.  The parks & meadows are brilliant with flowers, blue fields of Delphiniums & Cannas, pink Pedicularis & Dodocatheons, white "Eppo" & Polygonum.  There are 2 good looking cottage hotels on the lake shore in P. murrayana groves, lots of boats on the lake and some boarders.  The only objection to the place as an ideal summer camp is the people, or the fact that people are there.  A good road comes to it from Truckee & goes over the pass to Nevada City.
The whole valley is pure Canadian zone with a Hudsonian rim higher up.  Barometer read 7300 at camp on ridge, 6900 at Lake.

Followed down Little Truckee R.