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Mount Eddy. Here we remained from August 5 to 17, and, besides 

 making the ascent of Mount Eddy, we spent a day at Toad Lake, 

 one of the sources of the Sacramento River. 



Bear Creek is the second tributary from the head of Trinity 

 River. We camped almost at its head, altitude about 6000 feet, in 

 an attractive meadow, dotted with clumps of tamrac pine, alder, and 

 willow, and supporting a heavy growth of grass and rank hellebore. 

 Several acres had been fenced in by the forest rangers so that they 

 could have a place in which to pasture their horses, that had not 

 been trampled by the hordes of cattle. The trail from Kangaroo 

 Creek, for the most part through sparsely wooded hills and open 

 rocky stretches, had not prepared our minds for anything so green 

 and inviting as this stopping-place proved to be, so we were very 

 agreeably disappointed in it, and found the collecting excellent. 



The side-hills were covered with a growth of deer-oak and 

 manzanita, white, and red fir, cedar, and yellow pine. ■ Of the 

 cedar there were some especially fine old trees. There was an 

 abundance of water coming down in small streams on both sides 

 of the main creek, and that element always makes for plentiful 

 bird and mammal life. The list of mammals included the golden- 

 mantled ground squirrel, two species of chipmunks, flying squirrel, 

 snowshoe rabbit, Zapus, and marten. Birds were plentiful, both 

 near camp and in the woods, among them being Lincoln sparrow, 

 Lewis woodpecker, ruby-crowned kinglet, and creeper. The locality 

 may be considered as prevalently Canadian in zone. 



Mount Eddy is a bare, cone-shaped peak, 9151 feet in elevation, 

 next to Shasta the highest point in the region. But, because of 

 the lack of snow and its ruggedness, it does not give one the im- 

 pression of great height. We made the ascent August 14 by way 

 of Deadfall Canon and experienced no hard climbing at all, but 

 found it undesirable to stay long on the summit on account of the 

 violent wind that was blowing. The southwest side of the peak is 

 well timbered with foxtail pine, and a few straggling white-bark 

 pines reach almost to the barren summit, which is covered with 

 Loose shale rock. There was a small bank of snow on the north 

 side. We got a good view of the Salmon Mountains, and counted 

 eight ridges between us and Lassen Butte. Mount Shasta looked 

 stupendous, but the view toward the Sacramento Valley was un- 

 satisfactory on account of the haze. We saw some nutcrackers and 

 vireos near a small lake about 500 feet below the summit, and 



