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[[underlined]] Escudilla Mtn. [[/underlined]]

Camped about noon and started up the mountain at once, riding up the trail to the great open, grassy park on the first peak at 10100 feet, here we parted, Hotchkiss swinging around in the spruce & aspen woods to hunt bear and Birdseye and I striking across north to the higher peak. and reaching the main part at 10800 feet. There is still a higher peak to the north that must be fully 200 feet higher, but we had not time to reach it. Spent all the time we could hunting bluegrouse through the spruces but did not find any. These Mts. are two old craters with circular rims, and are formed of lava, as are ^ [[insertion]] almost [[/insertion]] all the rocks of this country. They are steep and rough but a good trail goes up the stream of the first mountain & then across about 2 miles of beautiful grassy parks to the second  This flat part has several small lakes & numerous streams & springs flowing NW, probably to the Nutriosa.

Dense [[underlined]] Canadian zone [[/underlined]] forest covers all the upper part above 9500 feet

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