98 6 miles Thursday Sept 22. Across Smiley Resumed work on our raft early and crossed successfully thirty won. Swam the horses. While Duni was preparing we got the animals which had landed above us and got away about 2 o'clock. We picked up a trail and followed it down stream and out toward the high benches where we struck the so-called Police Trail and followed it until nearly dark, when we camped where the trail crossed a small stream. The morning was cold with some rain and snow on the higher peaks. In the afternoon it rained considerably. Our trail led between the last through a burn which is only a month or so old and is still alive in places in the valley. Many of the fallen trees were fallen. Saw a load in afternoon 99 14 miles 2.84 pm J.B. Friday Sept 23 To Fort Grahame Got a good start and followed the trail southward along the benches. The trail was very good except in one place where there was a mile or two of fallen timber across a burn. We crossed several small trees and one rather large one about a mile or less from camp. About three miles from Fort Grahame the trail drops to the river flats and soon enters the heavy timber. A fire, still burning, shut us from the post and we had to go around at edge and reached the post just before dark. We once met Mr. William Fox, the manager of the post and camped in a small building in the post clearing.