Friday Sept 16 9 miles Drent ahead with the six and cut trail all day. The horses catching me about an hour before sunset. Kept on N. Side 7 mile but crossed to South side just before camping and picked up horse trail. Saw tracks of bears mouse. The boys saw two rabbits. Red squirrels very common. Son knowing of bears made this spring. Saw old snare set for bears I saw near the river in a marshy place the large frog collected at Telegraph Creek. Saturday Sept 17 12 miles To below Smith Fork Made a fairly early start. I started ahead and cut trail where needed. We made a long sandbar and after a stretch or two I deep woods reached the crossing place above the South Fork, where we crossed about 1 o'clock. I had gone below a half mile or so to the South Fork and found no other crossing place. At the crossing was a cabin built by P. Jensen and of cache. The cabin was used by the woodrats and great quantities of alder brush dried. Saw two rabbits in the day Saw a G.H. Owl in the early evening. Camped at dark on the forks of the valley at some distance from the river At crossing saw: Amelanchier, Prunus pennsylvanica, Aprocynum androsaemifolium & Eleocymus Dan Land and in the Heart Mtns Dan has seen many little Chief hares on the Kahtishma new bloom out.