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[[blank page] [[end page]] [[start page]] [[underlined]]Wallowa to Chico [[/underlined]]. [[underlined]] Nov. 26 [[/underlined]]. Got off about 10 A.M. with Mr. Howard O'Brien, Forest supervisor, with good saddle horse & a pack mule. Took bed & grub. Rode hard till long after dark & got into Chico, the ranger cabin about 8 oclock. Got some supper & slept on hay in haymow. Snow 1 to 6 inches deep in timber. Warm slopes bare at Chico. Came about 35 miles. Cold, tired & sore. [[underlined]]Nov. 24 [[/underlined]], Started at sunrise, taking Walter Fay, the ranger, with us. Ground frozen hard & white with frost & struck snow on top of ridge above cabin. Traveled N.E. till noon & struck the wolf proof fence in about 15 miles and rode along part of two sides. Then down to the rangers cabin & got lunch. Snow is about a foot deep in the pasture and crusted so it will nearly hold me.