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[[underlined]] June 15 [[/underlined]]. Took saddle horses & explored the big basin above us lying on the west side of the high point. Followed about 5 miles up through beautiful juniper & nutpine parks of the basin floor with steep walled cliffs almost surrounding us in bright vermillion streaks of slightly tilted, heavily stratified sandstone. Near the upper layer of wall a deep stratum of white sandstone carries a freeze around the canyon and forms in places miniature Gardens of the Gods in snowy bosses and little towers. Near the head of the canyon are spots of typical badlands, with bare, red gumbo banks full of fossil wood, oyster shells and in one place a lot of large bones that may have belonged to a whale. Only rough chunks could be found not showing enough of the surface to locate them. One small piece was saved.

We rode as far as horses could be conveniently taken in the canyon & then climbed nearly to the top of the wall, up a steep N.E. gulch.