Lake City, 223. 



Landslides, a night and a day of, 

 232-239; on a deforested slope, 

 281, 282; a liquefied landslide, 

 283, 284. See Rock avalanche. 



Leadville, 98-100. 



Lightning, 85, 86; trees struck 

 by, 175, 176, 278. 



Linden, seeds, 300. 



Lion, mountain, attacking bea- 

 ver, 28, 29, 35, 36; an adven- 

 ture, 102; fleeing from a forest 

 fire, 143. 



Little Cimarron River, 228, 234, 

 240-242. 



Locke Vale, 347. 



Locust, honey, seeds and pods, 

 299, 300. 



Log, with a cargo of seeds, 292-294. 



Long's Peak, 310, 338; wind on, 

 75-78; area of summit, 78; 

 altitude, 85; thunder-storms 

 on, 85; forest fires seen from, 

 140; Mills Moraine, 263, 342; 

 glaciers, 341 ; boulder field, 342; 

 geological history, 342, 343. 



McHenry Peak, 341. 

 Magpie, 149, 347. 

 Mangrove, seeding, 302. 

 Maple, red, seeds, 296. 

 Maple, silver, seeds, 295. 

 Middle Park, 339, 344. 

 Mills Moraine, 263, 342, 343. 

 Mississippi River, origin of its 



mud, 285; a seed-laden log on, 



292-294. 



Missouri River, its channel full 

 of dissolved Rocky Moun- 

 tains, 284. 



Mt. Barrat, 341. 



Mt. Coxcomb, crumbling char- 

 acter of, 228-230; a night 

 climb in the rain, 228-240. 



Mt. Hallett, 341. 



Mt. Meeker, 207, 342. 



Mt. Teller, 88. 



Muir, John, quoted, 128,250,327. 



Night, mountain-climbing by, 



226-232. 



Nuthatch, 199, 200. 

 Nuts, 293-295. 



Orton, Edward, Jr., quoted, 263. 



Otis Peak, 341. 



Ouzel. See Water-ouzel. 



Parks, mountain, openness 

 caused by forest fires, 339. 



Persimmons, 299. 



Pine, lodge-pole, 153, 157, 160; 

 spectacular death of, 158, 159; 

 destroyed by beetles, 178; 

 seeding, 298. 



Pine, Western yellow, as a fire- 

 fighter, 1 60, 161; killed by 

 beetles, 174-176. 



Poisoning, from a spring, 109-1 1 1. 



Poudre River, 95. 



Ptarmigan, 347. 



Rabbit-Ear Range, 140. 

 Rain, effects on forested and de- 

 forested slopes, 267-287. 



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