Aug 14 Could It rained til late into the night, hard at times. Apparently rain has occurred daily in the afternoons for 1 ½ months here. Aug 15, Sun. We take Jim's car to Agnew meadows, after packing up. Here we begin our hike to 1000 Island lake and other points. We start with clear skies, up the high trail to 1000 Is. Lake. The trail leads up a ridge to the east of Agnew Meadow with a good angle. We soon reach an altitude where we begin traversing the length of the long canyon, which eventually reaches Devils Postpile to the south. Along the trail are willows, gooseberries, many flowering annuals, grasses, and scattered conifers. We see white crowned sparrows, pine siskins?, Cassin's finches, Empidonax sp., Pine grosbeaks, Oregon juncos, Clark's nutcracker, red-sh. flickers. In the afternoon it begins raining. By this time we had decided to take the low trail instead of the high trail and had descended, cross country from the canyon wall to the trail below, about 1000'. We made camp at 4pm at the head of a clyclopean stair which leads up to Garnet Lake turnoff pt. Rain continued til late at night. Aug 16 - We packed up and left about 12 A.M., returning to Agnew Meadow because of the terrible weather. After driving over to Devils Postpile we went to Lunely Lake which is about 9