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the south or west on account of the high spurs which 

 surround the head-waters of the latter stream. It is 

 therefore advisable to approach it from the north by fol- 

 lowing up the South Fork from Blaney Meadows. These 

 meadows, which are the natural starting-point for all 

 trips in the upper San Joaquin Basin, are reached either 

 by the Red Mountain Trail from Pine Ridge, forty miles 

 to the southwest, or by the Miller Trail from the Yosemite 

 region, eighty miles to the north. 



It was my good fortune last summer, after attending 

 the dedication of the Sierra Club Lodge in Yosemite Val- 

 ley, to start on such a trip in company with Dr. G. K. 

 Gilbert, of the United States Geological Survey. We 

 traveled the distance from Yosemite to Fish Camp by 

 stage, and there met our packer and his pack-train all 

 ready for the long journey southward. During the stage 

 journey I was so unfortunate as to lose the box containing 

 my photographic plates, so for what illustrations I offer 

 here I am indebted to my friends. I need not relate the 

 details of the long journey eastward and southward, for 

 these have been already given in a previous article.* 

 Suffice it to say that we followed the regular route by the 

 Beasore and Jackass Meadows to Miller's bridge, then up 

 the valley of the South Fork of the San Joaquin, over 

 Mono and Bear Creek, finally reaching Blaney Meadows 

 on the 13th of July. 



Here we met Messrs. James Hutchinson, Edward 

 Hutchinson, Charles Noble, and Albert Whitney, all bent 

 on exploring the region about Mt. Humphreys. As our 

 routes lay in the same direction, it was decided to travel 



* "The Basin of the South Fork of the San Joaquin River." Sierra 

 Club Bulletin, Vol. II, p. 249. 



