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bear trails follow the gulches where no stock goes. There is water along the upper part of the canyons, good pure cold running streams and the bear trails follow the canyons to water.

There are a few blacktail deer in the foothills & lower slopes of the Mts. and the little white tail is abundant on top of the range. Their tracks are numerous all over the ridges in beautiful park like country where no stock runs & few people ever go. Three old bucks were seen at 7800 feet, lying on an open slope at the extreme [[head?]] of Deer Creek. One shot was in the grey coat & with half grown velvet horns. Its stomach [[strikethrough]] contained [[/strikethrough]] was full of mainly leaves & twigs & seeds of Arcocarpus p. [[passidentatus?]] & a few [[gerscueum?]] & other stems. The deer would have weighed about 100 lbs.

We saw a fresh mountain lion track. Saw Eutamias dorsalis, Thomomys fulvus hills were seen up to 7900 feet. Lepus holzneri is common to near peak.