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[[underline]] [[strikethrough]] Salt River [[/strikethrough]] Big Hole Mts.[[/underline]]  

The mts. are steep and dry and barren toward the tops. I found no water after leaving our creek at 10 A.M. until I struck snow banks at 5 P.M. on cold slopes at 9000 feet. Here I found only short trickles below the banks & no ^[[more]] water until I returned to the creek at dark.

Besides being naturally steep and dry the peaks have been sheeped and burned off until a desert of sliding pebbles on the open slopes. Spruces still cling to the cooler & moister slopes where there was no grass to burn them with. And Aspen thickets ^[[cover]] moister areas [[strikethrough]] that [[/strikethrough]] on flats and lower slopes where the timber has been burned off.

The rock of the mts. is mainly lime stone except along the river where lava forms most of the canyons below. There are many cliffs & bare rock slopes but most of the surfaces has naturally a soil covered slope.