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[[underlined]] To Negrita Cr. at Keeneys.

Aug. 30 [[/underlined]] Broke camp at 7:30 and in about a mile struck the forks of Snow Creek, followed up it and then west across open mesa to the divide & down Beaverdam Creek to the Negrita and camped in canyon near Keeneys Ranch. Aneroid at camp 8650, on Snow Cr. 85, on Summit 8600, on Negrita 8000, on mesa south of Canyon 8000, at camp in canyon 7200. Struck into yellow pine woods at head of Beaverdam Cr. & kept in it all the way except on a big open mesa crossed before the last descent into canyon. The Mogollon Mts. rise steeply from the Negrita and on steep rocky NE slopes [[checkmark]] Picea pungens, [[checkmark]] Abies concolor & [[checkmark]] Aspens come down to the creek. On more gradual slopes Canadian zone beings higher up. [[checkmark]] Pinus ponderosa & Populus angustofolia follow the creek bottoms all the way down but the hot slopes above the bottom are mainly covered with [[checkmark]] Nutpine, Juniper & blue oak (Q. arizonae).