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[[underlined]] Top Tajunga Canyon [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] Sept. 28 [[/underlined]] Spent the morning looking over the Colby ranch and talking so did not get off till 9:30. struck the Tajunga canyon at 3200 feet & followed up it to Alder Creek & up Alder to about 4300 feet, then over ridge to S.E. to the Chilleo and camped at 5300 feet above the cabin.
Entered strongly marked Transition zone at edge of Pine Flats at 5250 where Pinus ponderosa and jeffereyi & Libocedrus and Pinus lamberliana & coulteri are in continuous joust with Artemisia tridentata below. This is a winding basin and gulch country and above it are pinus on cold and chaparral on hot slopes.  Cyanocitta, Sitta pygmaea & aculeata & Parus gambeli & Juncos were also common & the small Thomomomys and Sciurus nigripes. 
From the ridges I could map Transition zone by Pine timber the whole length of the Pacifico ridge and down the upper slopes of the peak and on Pine Mountain and many others without names.