The Evolution Group of Peaks. 22,7 



and retraced my steps past the Crystal Lakes, the amphi- 

 theater of the Evolution Group, and stopped again at the 

 lower end of the Evolution Lake to take a last look at its 

 magnificent setting. How I missed my camera then! — 

 for the long afternoon shadows streamed back from the 

 jagged spires of Huxley and Spencer, making a perfect 

 subject for a photograph. By 5 o'clock I was back in 

 camp, and shortly afterwards Dr. Gilbert came in. He 

 had spent the day m the amphitheater between the 

 Evolution Peaks. 



Next day we said good-by to a camp where every 

 prospect except the mosquito pleases, took our way down 

 Evolution Creek to its junction with the South Fork of 

 the San Joaquin, and up this latter to the base of Mt. 

 Goddard. On the morning of the 20th, Dr. Gilbert and 

 I ascended Mt. Goddard, and renewed our impressions of 

 the Evolution Group from this commanding point. The 

 morning was cloudy, however, and became more so as the 

 day advanced ; so we were obliged to descend about noon 

 and return to camp, where we found our companions 

 just returned from a successful ascent of Mt. Humphreys. 

 On the 21 St they climbed Mt. Goddard, but fared even 

 worse with the weather than we did, for it stormed 

 furiously on them. 



Finally we left the watershed of the San Joaquin on 

 the morning of the 22d, took the Baird trail, and crossed 

 over to the North Fork of King's River by Hell-for-sure 

 Pass. Then we made our way across to the basin of 

 Crown Creek, through Tehipite Valley, and over to the 

 King's River Canon by way of Granite Basin, following 

 the route previously described. 



