Hunting at High Altitudes 



off without giving us a good chance, but stopped at 

 1 75 "or 200 yards distant. We both fired hastily, 

 and probably overshot; at all events, we touched 

 nothing. They ran down the mountain into a 

 ravine to the left and then up on the other side. 

 I suggested to Catlin, who had better and younger 

 legs than I, to go ahead up the ridge and try to 

 head them off. He did so, but after an hour re- 

 turned unsuccessful. He reported having stalked 

 a grizzly, which had run down the same ravine 

 with the sheep. He had gone into a pine forest on 

 the other side of the ravine, where it was futile to 

 follow. 



After a weary tramp without success, we reached 

 camp^about 4 :3O P. M., tired and hungry and with 

 only a mountain grouse to show for the day's hard 

 work. On the way we passed the carcasses of two 

 dead steers, untouched by bears ; good evidence that 

 as yet these animals had not come down into the 

 valley. At camp we found the barometer had 

 fallen three and a half tenths, promising stormy 

 weather. It had registered in that camp from 

 23.75 to 2 4- J 5- Previous to this afternoon it had 

 been quite steady at from 24.10 to 24.15. 



Most of the night was stormy; the wind blew 

 hard, with many showers of rain. In the morn- 

 ing we could see snow on the mountains to the 



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