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NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE. 



In addition to longer articles suitable for the body of the magazine, the editor 

 would be glad to receive brief memoranda of all noteworthy trips or explorations, 

 together with brief comment and suggestion on any topics of general interest to 

 the Club. Descriptive or narrative articles, or notes concerning the animals, 

 birds, forests, trails, geology, botany, etc., of the mountains, will be acceptable. 



The office of the Sierra Club is at Room 316, Third Floor, Mills Building , 

 San Francisco, where all the maps, photographs, and other records of the Club 

 are kept, and where members are welcome at any time. 



The Club would like to purchase additional copies of those numbers of the 

 Sierra Club Bulletin which are noted on the back of the cover of this number 

 as being out of print, and we hope any member having extra copies will send 

 them to the Secretary. 



Mount Weather, via Bluemont, Va., March 17, 1905. 

 Dear Mr. Colby: 



I thank you and the Sierra Club most deeply for your kind 

 invitation to the Fifth Annual Outing, I should be most happy 

 if I could be with you. I love the mountain-tops. But my 

 duties are all in the opposite direction this year. Perhaps I may 

 be able to join you next year. I hope to. 



" Mount Weather " is but 6,800 feet above sea-level. Still 

 even that is a useful elevation to the meteorologist. Why cannot 

 the Sierra Club raise the funds for a station on the summit of 

 Shasta or Rainier, as the Sonnenblick Club has done for the Son- 

 nenblick in Austria? That would be a "lighthouse in the skies" 

 for American meteorology. With best regards to Professors 

 McAdie, Le Conte, Davidson, and other good friends, 



Yours truly, Cleveland Abbe. 



From Tuolumne Meadows to Yosemite Valley by Tuolumne 



Pass. 



The United States Topographical Sheet shows a trail from 

 Tuolumne Meadows up Rafferty's Creek to and across Tuolumne 

 Pass and down the McClure Fork to the Merced River. 



The region through which this trail leads is in the High 

 Sierra amongst the head-waters of the Merced River. It is so 

 interesting and so little visited that my companion and I desire 

 to call the attention of the members of the Sierra Club to its 

 accessibility. The two days of last summer in making this trip 

 were two of the most interesting days that I have passed any- 

 where in the mountains. We thought that the route was known 

 only to the sheep-herders and to Government surveyors, and 



