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Soon after, Mr. John Muir explored many of the upper 

 canons of the San Joaquin and King's rivers. His 

 expeditions were made for the most part alone, and with 

 a knapsack, but he made no attempt to work out an 

 animal route through the higher portions. 



Mr. Theodore Solomons was the first who started a 

 clearly organized attack upon this unmapped region with 

 the single object in view of finding a practicable animal 

 route through it parallel with the crest line, and as near 

 to it as possible. In 1892 he pushed southward from 

 the Tuolumne Meadows alone, and made his way as far 

 as the valley of Mono Creek, when lack of provisions 

 forced him to return."^ 



In 1894, in company with Mr. Bierce, he worked still 

 further, reaching the basin of Bear Creek. He climbed 

 and named the Seven Gables, and was soon after forced 

 by a heavy snow-storm to abandon his entire outfit, and 

 make his escape on foot to the settlements near Pine 

 Ridge.f 



Again, in 1895, with Mr. Ernest Bonner, he explored 

 the Recesses of Mono Creek, made his way up the San 

 Joaquin, worked through the Evolution Group, ascended 

 Mount Goddard, and, seeing from the summit of that 

 dominating point the great difficulty of getting his animals 

 farther south without much loss of time, again aban- 

 doned his outfit, and knapsacked it down the cafions of 

 Disappearing and Goddard creeks to Simpson Meadow 

 and the King's River Canon. { By this means he made 

 his way through, but did not find an animal route across 

 the basin of King's River, and also avoided most of the 

 high region at its head. We owe much to Mr. Solomons 

 for his splendid work in this part of the High Sierra, and 

 doubtless the problem of the "High Mountain Route" 

 would have been solved long ago had he been able to 

 give a few more years of his untiring energy to the 

 search. 



* Sierra Club Bulletin, Vol. I, No. 3, p. 6t. 

 t Sierra Club Bulletin, Vol. I, No. 6, p. 221. 



t Sierra Club Bulletin, Vol. I, No. 7, "Notes and Correspondence," 

 p. 287. 



