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[[underlined]] To Beaver Lake

Aug. 26 [[overwritten]] 7 [[/overwritten]] [[/underlined]] Rained hard most all night & we caught only a few [[red underlined]] Peromyscus [[/red underlined]] & a [[red underlined]] Neotoma [[/red underlined]] along the cliffs. A [[red underlined]] Lynx [[/red underlined]] came past close to camp in morning & I shot a [[red underlined]] Eutamias dorsalis [[/red underlined]] on the rocks Heard [[red underlined]] rock squirrels [[/red underlined]]
Broke camp about 9 and climber onto high mesa (740 feet), then down to Beaver Creek at junction of Corduroy & up Beaver to V&T ranch and about 2 miles above to Beaver Lake and camped on west mesa about 100 feet above lake at 7500 feet by aneroid.
After reaching the top of the first long slope of Upper Sonoran [[red underlined]] junipers, nut pines & blue oaks [[/red underlined]] we struck into open [[red underlined]] yellow pine [[/red underlined]] fores that continues all the [[strikethrough]] y [[/strikethrough]] way except on local hot slopes. There is much open grassy mesa top and valley bottoms & to the NE. there are great green mesas & the Prairie Mts. a grassy range of smooth high hills.
Beaver Lake is about a mile long & 40 rods wide, between high cliffs of the old creek valley. It is not very deep but seems to be 8 or 10 feet in places.