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[[underlined]] To Luna Valley.

Sept. 4. [[/underlined]] Hunted over the Mts. all of forenoon and climbed the highest peak to the mouth of the trail,only about 8800 feet. The lowest notch in the Mts. south of the San Francisco River Canyon is about 8500 feet until beyond the long ridge lying south of where the trail crosses. Canadian zone is not very strongly marked or pure even on cold slopes, but it follows down gulches to below 8000 in steep rocky places.
The trail continues west along the top of long ridges and then drops down a long steep slope to near the valley level. It has been built by forest rangers and most of the work has been in blazing trees. Almost every tree near the trail and often 5 or 6 in a group are blazed on both sides deep into the wood and for a space 2 to 6 inches wide and one to 2 feet long with a deep notch cut in above. [[image: sketch of a tree trunk showing blaze and notch]] On a small tree half the circumference is barked & thousands of thrifty young pines are ruined.