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[[underline]] Moreno Valley to Taos [[/underline]]-

[[underline]] Sept. 19 [[/underline]]. Caught a lot more mammals and set more traps lower down in the valley.

[[underline]] Sept. 20 [[/underline]], Sunday. Took up traps & broke camp as early as possible & started back for Taos. Came over the pass and about 10 miles down Taos Creek and camped at 8100 feet, about 8 miles from Taos. The barometer read about 300 feet too high all day but making the correction ^[[with]] our camp at 8800 feet the lowest part of Moreno Valley that we reached, probably 100 feet above the outlet, was 8100 feet, Taos Pass 9100 feet, our nights camp 8100.
Moreno Valley was once a great lake 20 or 30 miles long by 5 to 10 miles wide and 300 or 400 feet deep. It was a big valley shut in by mountains and dammed by a stream of lava that ran across the outlet. The water has cut a notch in this dam and now runs out as shown in one of the photos taken but the [[strikethrough]] effects of [[/strikethrough]] old lake shores are still visible and the effects of the lake are shown in the open, treeless