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[[underline]] Sept.5 [[/underline]]. Broke camp & [[strikethrough]]cros[[/strikethrough]] followed up Santa Clara Canyon 3 or 4 miles to its headland over a low divide and down La Jara Creek to its junction with the San Antonio. Turned up half a mile into ^[[insertion]]Valle[[/insertion]] Santa Rosa and camped by a big spring under the first spruce tree at 8500 feet by the contour map. Came about 10 miles. Camped at noon.

The head of Santa Clara valley is a beautiful valley, narrow, grassy, without water, between a wall of spruce & fir on the south & scattered strips of Aspens on the north.

La Jara Creek begins a mile below the summit & runs down a steep & crooked gulch for a few miles, then [[strikethrough]] widens[[/strikethrough]] into a wider, grassy & meadow valley & then into the big open grass Valle Santa Rosa just before joining the larger San Antonio.

The Valle Santa Rosa is a park like basin about 2 by 4 miles in extent, well watered and covered with luxuriant grass. A few cattle & sheep do not keep the grass eaten down noticably & it stands one to 2 feet high, of the best varieties.