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The Mountaineer 
vistas of valleys far below, we came to Milestone Bow with 
Milestone opposite, a shaft with squared edges suggestive of a 
monument raised by some fabled giant. 
Returning we again lifted our packs and followed down 
the Kern-Kaweah and lest we lose any of its increasing gran- 
deur, a mile above the Kern where the apology of a trail dis- 
appeared over a projecting point, we kept the water’s edge, 
climbing over slippery boulders, squirming around wet walls, 
or fighting brush, rewarded by the mad rush of water deep set 
in high canyon walls. Tired we made the main camp, where 
the Kern-Kaweah takes its last plunge into the Kern below, 
thus ending a knapsack trip I defy any one to equal. 
PTARMAGIN 
C R. Corey 
