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to the soutli, following it over the divide and down the west- 

 ern slope as far as Georgetown Junction, which may have 

 deserved this designation when this route was the main 

 liighway into middle California, but which exists now only 

 as a name. Here, I left the road for a trail, used by dairjanen 

 in bringing their herds from the parched valleys to the flow- 



Cami) on Silver Creek 



er-filled alpine meadows, and climbed the steep grade 

 through the forests to Silver Creek, where a junction was 

 made with Price, Louis Fuertes and other members of our 

 Glen Alpine camp, who had struck directly across the moun- 

 tains, ascending Pyramid Peak by the way. 



Here is a trip through a region filled with associations of 

 California's early history, in which primitive means of 

 transportation still exist, but through which, nevertheless, a 

 journey may be made in perfect comfort, with opportunity 

 to stop at inns situated amid the wildest and most pictur- 

 esque surroundings. Beaching Tallac the journey may be 



