Field Notebook: Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, Ontario 1916, 1917, 1920
Page 120
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"further I turned down the trail at 10.15 and was at the hotel at 11.00. It took me 1/2 hour to climb from 1900 feet to 4275 feet (=2375') but only 3/4 hour to come down. Even this little climb made me feel that I had best not go up to the top of Mt. Dronkington. Still if I have a fine clear day ahead of me I will assail the trail once more. At 6 P.M. it rained again. Glory six days in the White Park it has rained me 5. One day has been a cloudless one, Thursday was the best one, and that one was used in fear of Mt. Dronkington. Sunday Sep. 19-1920 Driley House. Walked 3 miles south to Driley House disaster. This occurred on Aug. 28-1826 and to-day one sees no evidence of the slide. All is green now. All along the western side of the Grand Otol valley one sees the evidence of former slides and along the road below, the rocks that have come down. Most of these are of a dark-blue sandy-sandstone somewhat meta-morphosed. Its most interesting feature is the n-