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[[underline]] Horse Lake to Chama River. [[/underline]]

[[underline]] Sept. 23 [[/underline]] - Rained hard in forenoon so we did not break camp as we intended. Instead took a horseback trip around the valley & over the high ridges & through the timbered gulches. Found lots of aspen groves & dense thickets of alder - cherry, oak & Pseudotsuga. 
The mts. to the N.E. begin to show fresh white caps & it cleared cold & sharp after the rain.

[[underline]] Sept. 24 [[/underline]] - Started at 9:30 for the Chama River near the saw mill & reached it at 1. Aneroid at camp 7800, at river 6850. Came most of the way through beautiful open yellow pine wood & grassy parks, but for the last 3 or 4 miles through mainly juniper & nut pine ridges with the ground eaten bare by sheep. The late rain has filled pools all along but left the roads muddy & slippery. The Chama river is high & muddy, but we got a [[kip??] of good rainwater from rock pools. Camped under Populus angustifolia on river bottoms a mile above the mill.