Letters to a Friend 



Independence, 

 October i6th, 1873. 



All of my season's mountain work is done. 

 I have just come down from Mt. Whitney and 

 the newly discovered mountain five miles north 

 west of Whitney, and now our journey is a 

 simple saunter along the base of the range to 

 Tahoe, where we will arrive about the end of 

 the month or a few days earlier. 



I have seen a good deal more of the high 

 mountain region about the head of Kings and 

 Kern rivers than I expected to do in so short 

 and so late a time. 



Two weeks ago I left the Doctor and Billie 

 in the Kings River Yosemite, and set out for 

 Mt. Tyndall and adjacent mountains and 

 canons. I ascended Tyndall and ran down into 

 the Kern River Canon and climbed some name 

 less mountains between Tyndall and Whitney, 

 and thus gained a pretty good general idea 

 of the region. After crossing the range by the 

 Kearsarge Pass, I again left the Doctor and 

 Bill and pushed southward along the range and 

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