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[[underline]] July 8 [[/underline]]Woke up before daylight just before going over La Vita Pass & watched every change as soon as light enough. Reached the pass about sunrise.
Passed through oak & nut pine foot hills then yellow pine & at summit were in Pinus murrayana, firs & spruces & aspens. Steep slopes, half timbered, some big meadows and   parks, small streams, no ranches, good camp grounds, summit 9242 feet, cold. 
Down west slope the same kind of country but gentle slope, long canyons, sage brush & timber. 
Canadian zone covers the summit of the pass & while penetrated by strips of transition on hot slopes a strip 20 miles wide along the crest of range can be mapped as Canadian.  Transition zone covers the side of the range irregularly and before the open valley begins it is all Upper Sonoran. Ft Garland is neat the eastern edge of the valley but out in the