Field notes, v1309
Page 367
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H.W. Grinnell - 1915 35. Yosemite, Calif. and closely resembles the adults in appearance, save for the tail which is much narrower and of a blackish gray. September 19J This afternoon at 3:30 started for Columbia Rock with the children. At the foot of the trail (very near the 3989 ft. base mark) Willard discovered fresh bear tracks. They were of a large bear and a cub. We traced them up the trail two turns beyond the spring, and there the bears apparently turned into the rocks. We think the cub was in the lead as it's foot - prints were occasionally reversed as tho it had stopped and turned about to wait for the parent, whose tracks were all headed up trail. About half way along the tracks we came upon about a pint of freshly- dropped and semi-solid faeces, blackish in color and