J. P. PEARSON June 25 - Awakened by snorting & stamping of deer. A buck stood 20 yards from our sleeping bag eyeing us menacingly while a doe stood quietly about 20 yards beyond him. His horns in velvet, just beginning to branch. As we watched him, a martin hopped downhill between us and him, stopped momentarily to look at the deer, then disappeared downhill. Chipmunks & probably Douglas squirrels at comforts. After breakfast climbed via Marine T hut to the ridge (11,000 ft.) southward above Taylor Lakes. Many deer (perhaps 16 in the 3 hr. walk up). The lodgepole pine gives way at about 10,500 to whitebark pine which became quite stunted and finally disappears just short of the top of the ridge. At very top saw Belting Pond begraciously, chipmunks, and Sopher earth caves. The white-bark zone was covered with ?? deer? (or sheep?) droppings. Heard one come at close range at about 10,500 ft. Very large droppings at about 10,000 contained deer hair and hoof covering, probably farma. Have found no cowboy hay piles - possibly because there has been practically no green fodder available. Am surprised at the absence of green grass, alpine flowers etc. Numbers have we seen such growth. The