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[[header]][[underline]] Bluff [[Foley?]][[/underline]][[/header]]
[[underline]]Aug. 18.[[/underline]] Sunday, Remained at camp writing up notes, Coloring maps most of day & resting up from a very hard [[daup?]] climb yesterday, Had to walk most of the last [[?]] of trip- from 2700 to 7700 feet.
[[underline]]Aug. 19-[[/underline]] Trapped around camp.
[[underline]]Aug. 20[[/underline]]. Started for San Gorgonio Peak and followed the[[Seven Dales?]] [[?]] to where it crosses the Santa Ana Rivers at 5400 then up Trhough Barton flats to the head of the South Fork of Santa Ana and up a side cavern to Dry Lake at 9-- feet at north base of Grayback (San Gorgonio Peak). Did not reach our camp place till dark as we had some 20 miles to walk with considerable climbing.
Young Roger S. Palmer went with me and tools a horse to carry our blanket [[and]] grub [[and] traps but the are no saddle horses available.
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[[header]][[underline]]Up San Gorgonio Peak[[/underline]][[/header]]
[[underline]] Aug. 21[[/underline]]. Left camp at 7am [[and]] went up the north east slope of the mountain to the peak at 11480 feet. Toward flood zone of Hudsonview with [[?]] timber of [[?]] [[and]] [[?]] [[?]] and considerable area of Arctic Alpine on N.E. slope of peak with big permanent[[?]][[?]]. A little scrabby growth goes to the summit on the south side. The Peak is soft light gray granite as are all the cavage.Great cires cut into the NE slope in two places [[and]] glacial valleys extend below. with terminal [[and]] lateral [[?]] but not of very great date. No meadows or waist places were seen above or wear timberlive and the plants were vastly of [[?]] said [[?]]. A few [[areas?]] of Bryanthus grows of the north slope from 10000-11000 feet but it as beatened [[and]] does not make a [[?]] caught. There is no place or feed for [[?]] or [[?]] high up [[and]] neither [[?]]. Pink snow is abundant. the diverse of [[?]] and pine squirrels is conspicuous.