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Some of the cedar swamps have been cut out but others are still full of good poles.
Made our camp before sundown at S.W. corner of Mountain Lake in a sheltered nook behind a ridge of rocks.
A dense growth of cedar, hemlock, abies, & other trees gave additional protection. We piled up logs & boughs at our back & made a soft bed of boughs (spruce & fir & hemlock) [[insertion]] ^ We had no blankets save a thin rubber sheet [[/insertion]] Stacked up a lot of dry wood close by and built a fire against an old dead pine that leaned the other way. 
The pine was pitchy & sent a fierce heat into our nest & finally drove us out until it burned down about 10 oclock. Then we had a good fire the rest of night & slept over half the time, often an hour without having to poke the fire.