on 



on the sky-line as State Snow Ob- 

 server, I had one adventure with the ele- 

 ments that called for the longest special report 

 that I have ever written. Perhaps I cannot do 

 better than quote this report transmitted to Pro- 

 fessor Carpenter, at Denver, on May 26, 1904. 



NOTES ON THE POUDRE FLOOD 



The day before the Poudre flood, I traveled 

 for eight hours northwesterly along the top of 

 the Continental Divide, all the time being above 

 timber-line and from eleven thousand to twelve 

 thousand feet above sea-level. 



The morning was cloudless and hot. The 

 western sky was marvelously clear. Eastward, a 

 thin, dark haze overspread everything below ten 

 thousand feet. By 9.30 A. M. this haze had as- 

 cended higher than where I was. At nine o'clock 

 the snow on which I walked, though it had been 



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