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timberline. This is typical Canadian forest, dense with open parks & clear ground that refuses to be burned over. The lower part of the zone is burned away, but the upper part is untouched & beautiful around the base of the peaks.
I left my horse at the edge of Hudsonian zone at 11400 feet on a S.E. slope and climbed to the first high peak Extreme timberline reached to 12000 on S.W. slopes & the peak ran 200 feet above it, but full 1000 feet above the N.E. timberline. The peaks are well rounded & a horse could be ridden to the tops of most of them. There are steep rocky slopes, usually on the N.W. side, but the tops & southern slopes are soil covered & not very steep.
Most of the plants were dead & dry but I recognized a large part of the Pecos Baldy set of species at about the same levels.
The wind was blowing furiously on the peaks & it was cold & raw at noon, though quiet & warm down at camp. Few birds or mammals were to be seen & the peaks have a wintry look & feel.