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[[underlined]] Sept. 5 [[/underlined]] - Started early for Antonito where we got mail & supplies & then took the road for Tierra Amarilla. Crossed stony lava plain in a S.W. direction for 12 miles & camped on the San Antonito creek at west base of San Antonio mountain at 8700 feet. The creek is in a lava canyon. We camped on top on bare plain.

San Antonio Peak is a great lava crater in the form of a dome but with no apparent concavity. The base is barren but the upper half on the west side & most of the east side is covered with aspens with here & there a strip of spruces or firs. I could not make out any pines. The aspens have been burned & strips of dead timber show here & there & roads run up to them. There are apparently no ranches on or near the mountain & we could see no trace of water.