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[[underlined]] March 28 [[/underlined]] - Were up at daylight and had breakfast of coffee & bacon & bread & prunes & before sunrise had left our nights camp & were & were off on the crust. Crossed the south end of Mountain Lake & struck south on the Bulldog Trail until we struck an [[insertion]] ^ old [[/insertion]] road along the creek where pine logs had been hauled out many years ago. Followed to the west end of this road through heavy timber, then over a low divide to another creek & south through several miles of alder swamp, then south east into an immense cedar swamp where we struck another old timber road.
Followed this S.E. for several miles along the edge of the swamp & before sundown camped for the night in the corner of an old [[insertion]] ^ roofless [[/insertion]] lumber camp.
Dug out snow so we could build a bed & fire in our corner & where the two log walls would keep off the wind. While the boy was fixing camp & gathering wood for the night I struck S.W. across the