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Snow is 2 to 3 feet deep & well crusted with half an inch of fresh snow on top for tracking - Ideal conditions. I followed 3 or 4 miles up the creek on one side & then crossed over & came back on the other side but saw no wolf or deer tracks.
Sandstone cliffs border the creek valley but there is no bare ground yet except in an old burning on the north side of creek & no[[strikethrough]] t [[/strikethrough]] rocks there. Aside from a larger cedar swamp up the creek the whole country is dense & beautiful hardwood forest of surprisingly large and thrifty trees, mainly [[strikethrough]] ha [[/strikethrough]] sugar maple, beech, black ash, and in places hemlock & fir and on the flats a few [[strikethrough]] species [[/strikethrough]] of the 3 species of pines - white, norway & scrub.
For a few other species & small plants see note book. 
Wintergrass & arbutus & Limea are abundant where patches of bare ground show.  Alders & beeches are the principal brush along the streams. I never saw finer maple timber but they say sap does not run well because the snow is so deep the ground does not freeze. Maple & birch could be out in great quantities of large sawlog size. 
Beech is abundant & thrifty & often very tall & clear, sometimes 2 feet through.