Strang. 1921 Midway Cabin, 40 mi. n. Hazellen. 150. same as this; poplar, spruce and cottonwood. Saw a few Varied Thrushes and Steller Jay. Stopped for a moment at Who. Rose (?) for Beach Cal., for a few minutes, and had a fine breakfast at the first cabin where I was most hospitably received. Got away from there about eleven thirty, saw three dead rabbits on the first part of the trail evidently dead from some disease or plague. The trail climbs steadily, with frequent sharp dips thru the various creeks, and is in fearful condition boggy, muddy, and hence deep in water and mud in many places; it is narrow and winds considerably, altho in the main it follows the telegraph line. You gradually climb out of the poplar and cottonwood country along some fairly dry ridges covered with Jack-pine and tall fir-kneed spruces, hazel nuts, high-bush cranberries, blue berries, limeline?, and a few Saskatoon berries all along the trail. In two dips Hemlock and Spruce predominate, with the land very marshy supporting