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Rod, Gun, and Palette in the High Rockies 







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The aspen groves 



interspersed with the ad- 

 vance guard of the firs, was 

 passed, and the trail began 

 to rise, through a succession 

 of pleasant rolling meadows 

 cut by trilling streams, in 

 ivhich stood, low descending from the clothed hillsides, noble 

 clumps of pine and red fir. Grouse and pheasant three or four 

 times got up and streamed away before the two advance riders. 

 Jay and Jim, behind whom followed the cavalcade of half a dozen 

 pack horses, and the four remaining cavaliers who completed the 

 party. The trail narrowed, the timber pressed more closely, 

 the ascent became more abrupt, broken by descents into 

 various ravines water-bottomed. 



At an angle of the trail, the party passed close under the 

 vertical side of a precipitous outcrop from the mountainside 

 whose sheer face rose a hundred feet or more, and, turning the 

 corner, followed the trail down an abrupt descent of something 

 more than a sixty degree pitch. Across a mud-bottomed torrent 

 at its bottom, the trail turned sharply around the base, and 

 under the overhanging side of a single mass of rock about the 

 size of a Chicago business block, fallen from the heights far above, 

 that, resting with its strata inclined upward, lay in the spot where 

 the stream's former bed had been. A little beyond this point, 

 looking back from a clear knoll, the Madison basin just left 



