Mad R. ford, 2700 ft. above Ruth, Trinity C., Calif. May 24, 1933 Timber disappears: Chuguaquin, buck brush, Manzanita cover most of the soil areas. Some exposed outcroppings of highly metamorphosed limestone every now & then. Snow lay heavily on the crest of the ridge except in bare spots, as for instance that where the lookout tower stood. Lower about 20' Tale with glassed-in room for observation. Manzanita, Buck brush? and Fir (white?) grow on summit. To the In the far northeast ran the length of South Fork mountain with Brown Mt. far to the N.W. x only a dozen or fifteen miles covered with snow. Rest of the ridge bare of snow. Far to the north loomed the Salmon Trinity Alps, covered with snow and still farther away to the right Mt. Hasta, with snow almost at the base, veiled with the clouds. To In the east lay low tumbled mts., then a gap, which represented the Sac. Valley & then two high, snow covered, distant peaks, one concise with the other farther past South a brisker summit. Later might have been Mt. Lassen.