

TEJON RANCH TO LONE PINE. 



vide, about 3,300 feet above Tejon Ranch, the black pine 1 



great sugar pine 2 occur. The canon is remarkable for the unusually 



large number of cone-bearing trees -which it contains. 



July 13 we left Tejon Ranch and followed the road directly to Bakers- 

 field. July 15 I left Bakersfleld alone for Visalia, going first into the 

 foothills of the Sierra Nevada as far as Poso Station, on the Glenville 

 stage line, and then following the creek down to Poso on the Southern 

 Pacific Railroad. Thence 1 traveled along the railroad, arriving at 

 Visalia July 17. 



July 18 to 21 I was occupied in collecting plants and in preparing 

 for the ascent of the Sierra Nevada. 



July 25 Mr. Palmer, Mr. Bailey, Dr. Fisher, and myself went from 

 Visalia to Three Rivers, and in the afternoon of the following day Mr. 

 Bailey and I started for Mineral King. We camped July 20 at Kane 

 Flat, July 27 and 28 at Big Tree Canon, July 29 near the sawmill a lew 

 miles above the latter point, ami July 30 at Mineral King. 



We remained at/Mineral King five days, then moved camp to a group 

 of red firs about halfway to Farewell Gap. Many excursions into 

 the surrounding mountains were made during our stay at these places. 



August 10 we went on to Lyon Meadow, following the trail through 

 Farewell Gap. The last few miles of this journey was outside the Gov- 

 ernment reservation, and had been pastured by sheep so closely that all 

 the low vegetation was stripped from the ground. We found the same 

 conditions throughout the remainder of our journey in the Sierra 

 Nevada. Only in the moister portions of the meadows could the horses 

 get anything to eat. We continued along the trail by way of Trout 

 Meadows to Soda Springs, or Dicks Meadow, on the North Fork of 

 Kern River. Here we camped several days. 



On the 17th we proceeded to Whitney Meadows, camping in the edge 

 of the forest which skirts its western margin. From this time until 

 August 21 we were engaged in field work about Whitney and Big Cot- 

 tonwood meadows. 



From the 22d to the 24th of August I was occupied in a trip down 

 the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada to Lone Pine and Keeler. 



Mr. Funston, meanwhile, had joined Mr. Nelson's party June 19. 

 Their route lay from Lone Pine across the Inyo Mountains into Saline 

 Valley, northward to Waucoba Peak, and across the range again to 

 Owens Valley. They then ascended the White Mountains and trav- 

 ersed them as far as White Mountain Peak. Descending again on 

 the west they crossed the head of Owens Valley by way of Benton, 

 and went through Mammoth Pass in the Sierra Nevada to the head- 

 waters of the San Joaquin and Merced rivers and into Yosemite Valley. 

 Traveling southward from that place they crossed the Sierra Nevada 

 by way of Kings River Canon and Kearsarge Pass, and reached Lone 

 Pine August 22. 



1 Finns jeffreyi. *Finu8 lamberliuna. 



