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oe as deal of anticipation that I began to make my 
_ plans for a camping trip into the Yosemite and possibly 
the higher Sierras. I had had the good fortune of hav- 
_ing visited the wonderful valley once before, but that 
time I was not permitted to do the clambering around 
that a fern collector so enjoys. But upon this trip I © 
a planned to go in such a way as to secure the most out- 
_ door recreation possible and to see the mountains as 
= intimately as any one could in a short two w 
oe company with three of the boys of our high school 
. set. out on the 29th of June with a “light pack.’? As 
we started out just at sunrise we certainly made a spec- 
tacle; two little mountain horses, a one-seated light road 
wagon, our “grub box” nailed on the back of the one 
seat, a couple of blankets folded up for a cushion for the 
grub box, two. boys on top of the box, my botany press 
t, whic 
r our feet, and we were off. 
: first thirty miles were mainly sciiterentinge to 
Us, first, past the 1 various fruit orchards, peaches and 
apricots: Just be g to ripen, then past the wide ex- 
at fields, first in quarter sections then in - 
le team threshers and reapers were at work. — 
e = ia Hh a little ¢ one, but it looked steep to ae - 
h with a pack saddle made a convenient _ 
] of green ‘alfalfa, on the straight road to the a 
aioe the road ever in. front of us without a turn. 
ons and ter the many sections where the oe 
miles without: a hill to climb, and then we : 
