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[[underlined]] Elk Mts [[/underlined]].

Camped on mesa in edge of yellow pines at S.W. base of the real Elk Mts. at about noon. I walked 2 miles to the base & then climbed to the highest peak of the rim of the old crater, 10200 feet, and followed half way around the rim of rough lava rock. The crater opens out in 2 gulches to the S.W. with good streams flowing down them. The slopes are steep & rocky with aspens and firs down to 9000 feet in cold gulches and on south slopes above 10000 feet. [[checkmark]] Pinus flexilis & [[checkmark]] Pseudotsuga are abundant on cold slopes from 9000 to the top and [[checkmark]] Acer glabrum & [[checkmark]] Pachystema myrsenites are common on cold slopes.

Transition zone runs up to 10000 on the SW slopes with scrubby [[checkmark]] Pinus ponderosa & Arctostaphylos uvaursa. All around the base of the Mts. is good forest of yellow pine & in the draws it is unusually tall & large. I measured one fallen tree 4 feet through at base and 150 feet long, & there were lots more like it standing.

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Is Paclisptema Pachistima? reviewed -@meg_shuler