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climbing out of the canon. The climb warmed 

 me and set my clothes steaming. 



My watch indicated six o'clock. A fine snow 

 was falling, and it was dark and cold. I had been 

 exercising for twelve hours without rest, and had 

 eaten nothing since the previous day, as I never 

 take breakfast. I made a fire and lay down on a 

 rock by it to relax, and also to dry my clothes. 

 In half an hour I started on again. Rocky and 

 forest-covered ridges lay between me and Grand 

 Lake. In the darkness I certainly took the worst 

 way. I met with too much resistance in the 

 thickets and too little on the slippery places, so 

 that when, at eleven o'clock that night, I entered 

 a Grand Lake Hotel, my appearance was not pre- 

 possessing. 



The next day, after a few snow-measurements, 

 I set off to re-cross the range. In order to avoid 

 warm bear-dens and cold streams, I took a dif- 

 ferent route. It was a much longer way than 

 the one I had come by, so I went to a hunter's 

 deserted cabin for the night. The cabin had no 

 door, and I could see the stars through the roof. 

 The old sheet-iron stove was badly rusted and 



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