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On some slopes the open grass country runs down to bottom of gulches at 9500 to where the creeks begin. On the south & east sides of the mountain these grassy slopes form a large & important area of fine grazing lands with the best of grass. In the timber lower down are many grassy parks & much tall grass but mainly of wild oats, or a kind of wild chess, that is an annual or biannual & would not bear grasing to any extent.

The N.E. side of the peak is cut out in a deep old glacial arc that has changed but little since the  ice left it. The bottoms of the valleys are still rounded save where streams run & have cut a sharp gulch between the side lines of the old ice trough. These lines are distinct down to 7000 feet at Ruidoso at least. Several large creeks flow, or rather tumble, down the canyons from the mountain & make fertile farming valleys on all sides.

The Ruidoso canyon, up which we followed, is [[strikethrough]] steep [[/strikethrough]] narrow with high slopes of the