Oct 3 9:05 a.m. -- at Crescent Lake, 4779 feet; a rolling country, mostly covered with lodgepole pine, tall and slender. Peak a ways, yellow pines on hillslopes -- highe[r than] lodgepoles; a matter of soil drainage perhaps. Here no signs of greater rainfall; have crossed some post-flowing streams; swales are grassy, with sand bordering herbage, now bright yellow. Aspens seen, and willows, browsed up sheep-high. 12 M., at Eugene. The eastern rise over the Cascades was very gradual, but the western slope steeper, with deep-cut canyons. Lodge-pole pines were restricted to the east side; replaced rather abruptly along by Lake Odell by firs, hemlocks and cedars. Lake Odell, deep, forest-girt, no marsh or borders: birds lacking; altitude 4800 +; probably little food as well as shelter such as certain