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A portion of the mountain ([[strikethrough]] Piños [[/strikethough]]) ^[[instertion]] Frazier [[/insertion]] is in Ventura County, a portion in Los Angeles County.
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pines. ^[[insertion]] [[underlined]] Pinus jeffreyi [[/underlined]] [[/insertion]] begin, and among them are scattered a few trees of [[underlined]] Abies concolor [[/underlined]].
Among the pines the shrubs do not form thick chap[[strikethrough]] p [[/strikethrough]]arral but are nevertheless quite evenly [[strikethrough]] scattered [[/strikethrough]] spread over the ground.
The principal shrubs were [[underlined]] Artemisia tridentata [[/underlined]], Lonicera and . [[underlined]] Ceanothus cordulatus [[/underlined]]. The latter latter grew in dense flat-topped mats, about three feet high and entirely impenetrable.
The pine trees are very scattered, compared with the trees of an ordinary forest.  They all belong to [[underlined]] Pinus [[/underlined]] ponderosa [[underlined]] jeffreyi [[/underlined]].
From the summit could be seen the whole mountain system of the Tejon Pass region, the western end of the Sierra Madre[[strikethrough]] s [[/strikethrough]], Soledad Pass, San Francisquito Pass, Castac Cañon, the upper end of the Santa Clara valley, Santa Inez Mts, Mt Piñons, Tulare Plains, Kern Lake, Cañada de las Uvas, Sierra Nevada, [[strikethrough]] Castac Lake [[/strikethrough]], Antelope Valley, Crane Lake.
We proceeded northward over the top of the mountain, and descended a steep northwestern slope of the mountain to a ranch in Cuddy's Cañon, reaching camp about nine oclock.