112 CAMP FIRE REMINISCENCES 
made good time back to Five Mile. All along we 
had been wondering how we were to go down the 
zigzag path into the South Fork Canyon and up 
the other side of it, so we had a hasty lunch and 
pushed on, determining to reach Bergoff’s or at 
least Soldier’ s Spring before night. ) 
When we entered the timber at the head of Five 
Mile we found the snow heavy and the travelling 
dreadful. Sometimes the blazes were very hard 
to find and it was a great relief when we reached 
Soldier’s Spring. As we descended into the can- .- 
yon the snow became lighter, and when we emerged 
from the timber, there was scarcely any, the path 
down the shoulder being absolutely free from it. 
Again we noticed the change in temperature; this 
time it was very pronounced. We camped by a 
small shed in which the rancher had stored about 
a load of wild hay, cut on that side of the river, 
and after drying our clothes by a good fire and 
having supper, we crept into this hay, where I slept 
soundly all night. 
We were a little late starting on the morning of 
the 26th. While the horses were being packed I 
rode over to the ranch and purchased for ten dol- 
lars the two rams’ heads we had seen there. One 
was sixteen and the other fifteen inches. Coming 
back with these trophies I found all ready, so we 
began the long ascent. For hours we climbed, 
conditions getting worse as we reached the snow, 
but an end comes to all things and we were on the 
summit at last. 
Four Franklin grouse (C. Franklint) flying into — 
