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[[underline]]Idylwild[[/underline]]

[[underline]]Aug. 1&2[[/underline]]-Trapped up creek into canyon but caught little.

[[underline]]Aug. 3.[[/underline]] Got a horse & stated up [[underline in red]] San Jacinto peak [[/underline in red]]. Climbed the main ridge to 8200 feet, then followed trail north east to creek valley at 7500 feet, then up it to 8500 feet on east side of [[underline in red]] Marion Mtn. [[/underline in red]] and camped for the night.  Set traps from 8500 to 9000 feet in canadian zone meadows

Slept with only a saddle blanket & had to keep a little fire to keep warm

[[underline]]Aug. 4[[/underline]]- caught only Microtus & Peromyscus & a Sorex, but left part of traps as I went on over the ridge into [[underline in red]]Round Valley [[/underline in red]]([[underline in red]]Tamarack Valley [[/underline in red]])to the tent kept there by the hotel people during summer.  This is at 9000 feet by beautiful Canadian zone meadows.  Left my horse & climed 1800 feet up to San [[underline in red]]Jacinto peak[[/underline in red]] & back in P.M. A good trail goes to the top & a horse may be ridden to 100 feet of the top.