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[[underlined]] Sacramento Mts. - to Weed [[/underlined]].

[[underlined]] Sept.5 [[/underlined]] - Got a late start but made about 25 miles ^[[nearly]] all up hill to Weed. Wound up & up along grassy valleys & ravines and now and then over a ridge & up another ravine. At one place we went down 300 feet & then up again till we crossed the highest ridge near Weed at 7500 feet. Weed is 7200.

Started at 6050 feet. Struck pinus ponderosa at 6500 feet & it became the dominant tree. Pseudotsuga & a lobe leaved oak began at 7000, the former on cold slopes only.

Beautiful country, with a good mixture of timber & grassy park like intervals. Scrub oak covers some of the slopes. Road muddy from yesterdays heavy rains.

Heard the first Eutamias & saw Sciurus cuttings a few miles south of Weed.

We are now fairly into the timber of the Sacramento Mts. & have covered the lowest part of the range between them & the Guadalupe Mts. The lowest gap where we crossed the range was 6625, & it is safe to say that there is a practically continuous level of 7000 feet between the two ranges with continuous juniper & nut pine timber & almost continuous yellow pine.