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[[underlined]]Up San Jacinto Mts.[/underlined]]

June 11 - Took a lunch, a canteen of water & an [ameroid?] & started up the steep slope of the Mts. to run a zone line up the first ridge north of Tahquitz Canyon. Found it steep but easy climbing & pushed on steadily to a little above 4000 feet into the edge of transition zone. Turned back at 4:30 but did not get down the slope before dark & had to make the last 1000 feet very cautiously by feeling. Got back at 9:30 with very weary legs.

The Ridge runs mainly east & west and so gives good north and south slopes on opposite sides. 

[[underlined]]Lower Sonoran[[/underlined]] Zone extends up to about 3000 feet on the north slopes and 4000 feet on south slopes. It is characterized by a scattered growth of Covillea tridentata, Dalia glandulosa; Dalia "macrocarpa", Kameria canescens?, [[?]]Mimosa roemeriana?, Ephedra antisyphilitica, Opuntia echinocarpa?, Opuntia crimson flower, Echinocactus wislizeni & liconti [[?]], 

The slopes are steep & rocky & barren & hot.  

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