Letters to a Friend 



The snow is deep this year, and the regular 

 Mariposa Trail leading to Glacier Point, etc., 

 will not be open before June. The Mariposa 

 travel of May and perhaps a week or so of 

 June will enter the valley from Clark's by a 

 sort of sneaking trail along the river canon 

 below the snow, but you must not come that 

 way. 



You may also enter the valley via Little Yo- 

 semite and Nevada and Vernal Falls by a trail 

 constructed last season; also by Indian Falls 

 on the north side of the valley by a trail now 

 nearly completed. This last is a noble entrance 

 but perhaps not equal to the first. Whatever 

 way you come, we will travel all those up and 

 down, and bear in mind that you must go 

 among the summits in July or August. Bring 

 no friends that will not go to these fountains 

 beyond or are uncastoffable. Calm thinkers 

 like your Doctor, who first led me with science, 

 and Le Conte are the kinds of souls fit for the 

 formation of human clouds adapted to this 

 mountain sky. Nevertheless, I will rejoice be- 



