July 12 Left Camp Lewis at 7 o'clock in the morning on an army convoy bound for Mt. Rainier Park. There was a great string of trucks which was carefully stopping. The trip was slow land we did not arrive in the park until 2 P.M. nevertheless all disagreeable features of the first part of our trip were dispelled with - the 75 mile from Lewis to the Park was almost a continuous forest. First the country was level then we crossed several large river valley and finally began to ascend when the foothills altho they looked no more like foothills in Cal than down the country around Lake Tahoe. The weather was very smoky due to the