B Richardson 37 Annual Account y 20 Little Lake Kern River Tulare Co., California Left Quaking Aspen Meadow this morning at 6:30 and took the cattle drive to the ridge trail on the south rim of the Little Kern River. We continued by trail, crossing the Little Kern River at the pond, to Front Meadow when we had lunch. The country is a desert as you go along is first a desert for forest broken up by meadows and as you drop toward the Little Kern there is a gradual change to the Yellow pine and then to the more open chaparral type composed of chiefly of Manzanita and Ceanothus with scattered pine. On the north side of the river there is a volcanic formation and the vegetation here is Old man Sage, Black