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wheat at 10400 ft. & of potatoes at 11400 ft.  We rode on up over former trail passing the first entering the upper pine belt rather late in the afternoon.  My men were crawling along behind at a snail's pace with the burros and I went on ahead & ascended the Cerro Colorado 13600 ft. which is the western slope timberline.  Thence I took a view of the peak and noted Junipers, a couple of hundred feet higher a little beyond.  Thence descended to the vicinity of the trail & waited for the men.  Tracks of Lepus orizabae were common to summit of Cerro Colorado among the scattered [[strikethrough]] plants & bunches of [[/strikethrough]] flowering plants & grass bunches.

From the near view of the peak taken