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a sheltering rock, made a bed of boughs & grass & gathered wood for a fire & camped, comfortable but hungry.

At about 5500 feet, at the base of the steep slope, [[underlined]] Juniperus pachyphloea [[/underlined]] began with the more common [[underlined]] flaccida [[/underlined]] & both run to the top. At about 6000 feet we struck the first [[underlined]] Cupressus [[space]][[/underlined]] in the bottom of the gulch & found it a common tree, often 2 to 4 feet in diameter & 75 to 100 feet high, up to about 7000 feet - but only along the gulch. A few [[underlined]] Pseudotsugas [[/underlined]] were scattered along the gulch from 6500 to 7000 feet. For a couple of miles where these trees occur the gulch slopes ^[[insertion]] gently [[/insertion]] to the N.E. & is rather a coold, shady ravine, full of maples, oaks, junipers, cypress & douglas spruce. There is no stream of water but numerous pools, springs & basins that the frequent showers keep well supplied.

Leaving the gulch at about 7000 feet we climbed up the steeply sloping ridge over grassy turf under a beautiful stunted forest of ^[[insertion]] nut pines, [[/insertion]] junipers & oaks, and ^[[insertion]] then [[/insertion]] over the tops of rolling ridges with this same grassy forest, almost orchard like. Deep gulches with heavier timber, cut down the 

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Near the bottom of the page I changed "[[insertion nut pines" to "[[insertion]] nut pines"--thomasc