72 Saturday August 27. To Pan east of lake We intended to raft the river but found it fordable just above our camp so crossed the horses. Took the trail on the east side and followed it in a S.E. direction. It passed through a scattered pine forest and then along several deep, grassy valleys, and then climbed the mountain side soon reaching nearby to timberline. Then we entered a broad open pass running nearly East and West and went down to northern border. Mountains border it on either side. Those to the south being much the higher. It was grassy and abundant with long dry grassy mazes which were full of groundhog burrows. We saw no caution on either side and few tracks in the valley. Some tracks of moose in the following 12 miles 78 Sunday Aug 28. To. Thuthade Lake We got away in good time and went eastward along the southern border of the valley down towards the deep valley to the east. We quickly crossed to the southern side of the creek, which left the pure in a deep canyon-like valley, and picked up the Indian Trail which we had lost in the open pass. It led southward and seemed to be heading for the head of a long narrow lake which occupies the valley below. This we suppose to be the lake at the head of the valley, and as we went to cross it at the outlet of the lake we decided it was best to abandon the trail and make for the lower end of the lake. We made several miles through a brush about 25 years old and came shortly before sunset beside a creek within a mile or two of the lake. I saw Ribes and amelanchier in the brush also Lepaygyra