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range. On the rushing trout stream are several camps, 

 as Fellow's, where lovers of mountain life and scenery 

 make their home ; and all along this stream private camps 

 are found, outfitting in the towns of the vicinity or in 

 Los Angeles, where there are houses which make a 

 business of equipping hunting camps, providing every- 

 thing but the game. The heart of the San Jacinto 

 range is reached from Los Angeles on the Sante Fe 

 road to Hemet, from which a stage takes one up the 

 mountain trail, a mile above the sea, to Idlewild, where 

 hotel, cottage, tent, or spreading tree can be had, trained 

 mountain horses, and one of the most attractive regions 

 to use as a base when mountaineering in Southern Cali- 

 fornia, in what is virtually the heart of the California 

 alps. 



No more interesting mountain road can be found in 

 California than the one from Hemet to Idlewild, or to 

 the upper reaches of Mount San Jacinto, two miles above 

 the Pacific. To reach this point, the top of the world 

 seemingly, one passes by mysterious Mount Tauquiz, 

 about which the old Indians say strange cries and 

 groans are heard at times, weird tremblings which make 

 the entire mountain shake. Here we find the Tauquiz 

 meadows with running streams eight thousand feet above 

 the sea ; and at every rise new charms of scenery appear. 

 The trip to the summit from Idlewild is about thirty 

 miles over a good trail, and from here hundreds of 

 square miles of California can be seen. The changes in 

 forest flora alone repay the trip. From willow, sycamore, 



