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[[underlined]] Up Sierra Blanca [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]]Sept. 13.[[/underlined]] From our camp at 7200 feet on Ruidoso Creek we rode up the creek about 4 miles & left it at 9200 feet, turning up the ridge to our right & riding most of the way up to timberline on the S.E. side of the mountain, where we left our horses at 9900 feet. From this point we followed the east ridge of the mountain to the peak over grassy slopes, the aneroid reading 12600 at the summit. Another trail turns from [[strikethrough]]the[[/strikethrough]] higher up the creek over the ridge to the left & goes up an easier grade along the south ridge of the mountain where they usually ride to the peak. 

The only true timberline on the mountain is on the N.E. slope where the dwarfed Piceas reach to 12200 feet & in one place to 12400. The other slopes are too dry for spruce timber and most of the of the area above 10000 feet is covered with fine bunch grass. A Canadian zone timberline at 10000 feet where Pseudotsuga, Pinus strobiformis? & Populus tremuloides & Quercus (lobed leaf) [[gap]] , reach their limit forms the limit of the main forest. In places these reach up to 11000 feet, but most of the slopes are treeless above 10000