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[[underlined]] Guadalupe Mts. [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] Aug. 31 [[/underlined]] - Started Surber up where I saw the sheep last night & in an hour he had killed a Ram & ewe out of a bunch of 5.

I followed up the canyon to where it turns to the east & climbed the ridge to the west onto two peaks back & higher than the first, but found there was another gulch to cross between my highest peak & the one to the west that I supposed to be Guadalupe Peak. The aneroid read 8500 on the peak I climbed & the next peak was apparently 1000 feet higher - but another peak to the north & over to the east appear just as high. The big point of rock at the corner of the range is not quite so high as where I was.

The mts. are all limestone except a few strata of sandstone & shale at the base, they are steep & rough but easily climbed. The north slopes are covered with yellow & white pine The same set of trees & shrubs occur here as in the Dog Canyon