385. Willow Park to Junction of Poudre and Chapin Creeks, into Hague Creek. July 25/1933. A brushed out trail, seldom used, leads from shelter cabin over Chapin Pass and blown into Chapin Valley, a grass & willow swampy valley between two ridges both reaching about Timberline. Forest bordering most of Chapin Valley & indeed over most of north end of park is dense lodgepole pine with thick carpet of grass & dwarf buckthorn. Deer trails follow the meadow. Deer tracks frequently encountered. At junction of Poudre & Chapin Creeks, about 16 miles north of Fall River Road, was a series of deserted beaver ponds in the willow thicket. The ponds had been deserted sometime this spring. It looked as though high water had been responsible. The area did not appear to have been occupied more than a few years. Possibly there were the beavers from Poudre Lake, which are reported to have departed there 2 yrs ago. The mud bottoms of all the ponds were covered with deer & fawn tracks, 1 coyotes tracks, 1 spotted sandpiper with fuzzy young one. Quail seen just before we reached the ponds & 1 faint deer trail. Ranger Wilson overtook us here. Said he had seen 6 fawns this morning en route