Hunting at High Altitudes 



of the red granite formation, the granite continues 

 for six miles through various geological strata, and 

 on the western slope there is room enough for a 

 trail. Near the lower end of the red granite 

 canon the south fork, 57 a considerable stream at 

 times a river leaps from this deep, narrow canon 

 through the vertical walls of the main canon and 

 falls almost as a single cascade two hundred feet 

 to the river below. At a distance, it has the ap- 

 pearance of an immense water-spout from a water 

 tank. In many respects this is a most remarkable 

 canon. I have already described it. 



From here we explored the high mountain 

 plateau on each side of Bear Tooth Mountain, but 

 finding no bear sign, went on down to Dead Indian 

 Creek, and after camping there, followed the trail, 

 which leaves the valley of Clark's Fork, because it 

 is impossible to go down through the canon. The 

 climb over Dead Indian Hill is a rise of two thou- 

 sand feet by aneroid barometer, and descending to 

 Clark's Fork, the fall is twenty-five hundred feet. 

 No bears were seen on Clark's Fork, but at Heart 

 Mountain two were killed, but without adventure. 

 As autumn was approaching, it seemed best to 

 come down from the mountains, cross the river 

 and gradually work around the foothills of the 

 mountain south of the Yellowstone Valley to the 



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