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Sierra Club Bulletin. 



i the striking volcanic formation along its course. These 

 changes in names seemed to me thoroughly rational, 

 and I hope, in noting them upon my map, I have not 

 trespassed upon an}' traditions of the Sierra admirers. 



I wish also to say a word about the trail traced 

 along the north bank of Whitney Creek from Crab- 

 tree Meadows to the Kern, especially as you speak of 

 attempting that passage. In making the map to accom- 

 pany m.y report I endeavored to personally travel over 

 the trails indicated. Now in making my trip to Mt. 

 Whitney in 1899 I went out on Volcano Creek to Mo- 

 nache Meadows in order to climb some of the extinct 

 volcanoes and also for a day's fishing along that stream. 

 From Monache I sent my pack-train and men up the usu- 

 ally traveled trail via Cooper Meadows and the Sand 

 Flats to Crabtree Meadows. In company with Dr. 

 Frederick Pearl and one man, I retraced our steps to the 

 Kern and then up that cafion, hoping to be able to get out 

 at Whitney Creek, and so join our main party at the 

 Crabtree Meadows. As a matter of fact the outlook 

 from the point where Whitney Creek joins the Kern 

 discouraged us, and we moved farther up the cafion and 

 gained the eastern plateau across the stone-fields north 

 of the East Fork, as indicated on the map, and thence 

 down to our pack-train at Crabtree. At the Crabtree 

 Meadows I found a trail leading west along Whitney 

 Creek, and I sent a corporal to follow it down and as- 

 certain if it really reached the Kern. He reported that 

 it was a blind trail ending about one mile down the 

 stream in some meadowland, and was apparently only 

 used to gain better grazing for the stock. The govern- 

 ment engraver at Washington completed the trail down 

 to the Kern, and as I did not read the proof, the report 

 and map were issued before I knew of the mistake. So 

 far as I knew at that time, there was no practicable trail 

 from Crabtree down Whitney Creek to the Kern. 



The Sierra country is very dear to me and I hope that 

 some time I may have the pleasure of joining one of the 

 Sierra Club outings. I am one of the enthusiastic 

 though necessarily silent members of the Club. 

 Very respectfully, 



Henry B. Clark, 

 Grand Rapids, Mich., May 25, 1093. ^'''^^ ^^^3^. Corps. 



As our Sierra members know, new and fine trails are being 

 everywhere opened by the forest-ranger. If his coming lessens 

 in some ways the possibilities of adventure, the forest reserve 

 policy is nevertheless on the whole a boon to Sierra enthusi- 

 asts, and as for the industrial welfare of California there can 

 be, of course, but one opinion by thoughtful people as to its 

 wisdom. 



Berkeley, Cal.. November i, 1903. WiLLIS L. JepSON. 



