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Thursday July 28: 2nd S. Fork
We crossed the rimi and got the
horses across all right. We got
away at 7.30. In followed the contour
sometimes hard to climb the hill because
of the high rate army the trail. We found
several families of muffed grione in
the valley and shot a 9. The Trail
finally left and crossed a very high
ridge and then descended a steep
meloni and passed through a
many spruce forest, where I took a
photo the from niches the main stream
again and then ascended a tributary
a few miles, where we camped at
about 6.30 with tent in it and a
small camp. From here south we have the best run yet
of a big Mt. Shep Mt. (Mt. 14,325) (relating to
the traverse east) of the Indians (Oakhams)
This is S. of Buckley Lake and is not the same as the Shep Mt. of the S. Fork.
I see the snow on it. Tells me that there are no
bears in Chief Mt. but used to be many
but sheep and goats as on a smaller Mt. just across,
the alpine was as on. But saw 36 goats in one band
[illegible] shot by Simons
about 10 miles
Friday July 29: To Head Joa-git Creek
We put a good start and made a good
day reached near the head of the creek,
on which we camped. Our camp
lay at first on the top of the poplar ridge
which bordered the valley. Then we descended
out after a few miles crossed the
creek and then traversed on a
narrow money valley. Thence the trail
entered a forest of pines with
a pond, a small lake which was
full of Trout. Salmon my kind of which
we caught some. The lake is called
La-Tee-Three Twenty Fresh Lake.
A mile five beyond we camped on
a plain and poplar flat, with good
feed and close to the once-called
Mito. We saw two wolves in the
valley of the Joa-git.
Dan Dorman tells me that he saw
15 wolves in one day at a
Ranch in the Stekens about
100 miles up from Telegraph
Creek.
about 15 miles
near Head Iskat