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[[underlined]] Chusca Mts. & Lakes 

Oct. 2 [[/underlined]]. Packed up and started NE., climbed onto a long flat topped ridge and followed it until it joined the main high mesa and then follow good trail 2 or 3 miles NE. through open, clean forest of fine yellow pines to the first lakes.
 
After passing 2 lakes we struck a shallow gulch leading off to the south and camped in it by some water holes at about 8800 feet in a grove of Aspens. It was cold and windy and we found this gulch well protected and the most comfortable spot available. 

Camped about 10 A.M. and came about 8 miles. Set traps up and down the gulch and shot some specimens.

Grass is short but the horses get enough while not working.
 
In P.M. I rode over past 4 or 5 more lakes to the NE. and out to edge of the high mesa escarpment of the Chusca Mts. overlooking the the great barren desert of the Chusca River Valley. The wind was blowing a fierce gale so I could hardly ride against it & the desert was all dense with dust. 

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