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[[underlined]]Sept 4[[/underlined]]. Climbed from camp at 9000 feet to top of peak N.E. of camp about 11000. This we call Santa Clara Peak as it is evidently the sun mountain of the Santa Clara Indians and is the highest peak in the Jemez Range next to Cebolla Peak which is nearly equals in hight. Found no water on the mountain above the head of Santa Clara Creek, but its south & west exposures are largely grassy slopes covered with tall, ungrazed grasses full of seeds. the first 1000 feet of my climb was through beautiful woods of spruce & fir & aspens, then over the grassy slopes to the top. Patches of Picea pungens are scattered over the slope and on the N.E. side come up to the summit where they are much dwarfed. Fire has swept most of the timber from the mountain and probably the balsams could not stand burning as the pungens did. 

Found bluegrouse on top, & [[anthurs?]] 

Ochotomas were abundant in rock slides.