Thick the loss the winter is heavier than 2 years ago. More snow the winter than 2 years ago but considerably freezing about the same. More March in the Jackson hole country 2 years ago Each bush on the hill. Saw better than the valley ones This morning we left Furpines about 8 and climbed up on the Red Butte which starts in the forks of Crystal Creek and the Gros Ventres. Looking up the Gros Ventre a broad valley about 2 miles wide is seen. The Gros Ventre flowing along its norther edge close to Coal Ridge a sandstone slate formation which goes over to Slate Creek a tributary of the Gros Ventre for the North Crystal Creek is formed by Red Sandstone which also forms the Gros Ventre below Slate Creek The Gros Ventre Valley. Above the slide which comes down the side of the valley from the ridge on the south and surrounds the Gros Ventre about 6 miles from the Red Butte on which we stood, the valley opens out again, being separated from the Crystal Creek valley. This supper storm is packing and sage covered. The slide has dammed up the Gros Ventre into a lake a mile or more in length, and at its upper end is a willow marsh a couple of miles long on which the lake is now encroaching. The snow fell here three years in depth more than half the ground in the valley being bare with the exception of the deer snow. But usually there is a much heavier fall (Snowfall at Drump above Jackson up to Paterenum is generally light)