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From How Lake we struck south over high ridge (probably 500 feet) and then down a long gulch & creek to the south west corner of Mountain Lake.
Camped at the corner of the Lake after about 15 miles over lakes & soft snow. Snowshoeing heavy & slow & wet. Snow 2 to 6 feet deep in in woods & no crust. Did not freeze last night & warm & clear all day. Creeks open & running. Lakes icy & open at edges in places.
All day in heavy woods of hemlock, pines (3 sp.) spruce, cedar white & yellow birch, hard & soft maple, [[insertion]] ^ striped maple [[/insertion]] a few basswood, ironwood, red oak, lots of black ash & aspen & in swamp tamarack & Alders.
The country has been all lumbered out long ago for white pine & some norway pine, but most of the other timber is untouched.