Timpson 172. Rocky Mt. Natl Parks Lawn Lake Trip June 29, 1931 Sunny until noon then showers rest of day. Elevation Horseshoe Park 8500, Lawn Lake 11,100, Divide between Hague & Fairchild 12,300. Trip was to top of divide and back. The first steep climb out of Horseshoe Park goes through forest with considerable underbrush: ribes, Mt. maple, aspen, & grass, & flowering Raspberry. Up in Roaring River valley is dense growth of pure lodgepole thickets with very little underbrush, and pure aspen stands with an abundance of golden pea, & grass, and the mixed forest with a scattering of underbrush. The grass, brush, & pea growth is so lush, that it would make fine elk summer range. No sign of elk wintering in Roaring River Valley. Lawn Lake is just at timberline. There is an old town of 3-4 sq. miles below it, with sparse spruce, and some brush. Above the lake, the high mt. grassland begins. From the divide we could see wonderful mt. sheep country above timberline stretching to the north boundary of the park, to see the east of Hague Creek. Northwest of the divide, Hague Creek breaks down into a long forested valley which joins the Poudre, even in the northwest corner of the