ground at the along the small streams. Would late ferny plants. All the rocks of this region is a granite like that of the Indian River Grotto. And granite rich in orthoclase. The granite is cut by numerous dikes of dark rock. Of the latter there samples. Aug 23-99 Wednesday Camp, XVI. The night was a cold one, and this morning our water pans have ice & melted thin. At 8 A.M. we all start out to climb Laramie Peak. The elevation from camp coming and going is 6975 feet Bar. At the Beaver dam at the base of Laramie Peak in the largest stream the elevation is 7300. We select a place on the west side of the peak where a dikes has been eroded out with granite walls in boulder heaps having eroded as such a place. I found it very hard climbing and ascended to 8675. Actual height in 9020 Camera who was with me ascended to 9075. On our return to camp I learned that neither one of us had been near the top. Prof Rose and Tracy did go to the top which were about one