and breakfast. By 7:30 I start down the not along the P. Richards with Father's Blessm. By nine we are at Timber line and my acting heel is about gone. On the top of Pikes Peak all is naked granite. Here and there is a small tope of pine not 1/2 inches high. A little bird eating the hickel apple and an occasional mountain rat it are the life I saw. These rats are very tame, have large ears and speak like a bird to scare one away. A little farther down but far above timber line I also saw a pair of mountain prairie dogs. Timber line is a very irregular line varying 100 feet more on the Old side. The aspen and rocks are trying to take in the face coming. To have the full advantage of Pikes Peak it is to see a sunset & sunrise at the north down the mt six miles to the Pikes Peak Chms.' office. It may be painful but it is worth the suffering.