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Sierra Club Bulletin. 



camped about a mile below Rae Lake. It was cloudy 

 and threatening that night, but no rain fell till 4 a. m., 

 when a heavy shower passed over. 



Shortly after daybreak on the morning of the 26th, 

 the clouds broke away somewhat, and we got a good 

 start. At the strait between the two parts of Rae Lake, 

 two of our mules got into deep water and soaked their 

 packs. How fortunate it was the day before the end! 

 Going up the slopes of Glenn Pass, a heavy rain com- 

 menced, but we pushed right on up and reached the crest 

 by 10 A. M., thus conquering our last 12,000-foot pass. 

 There was little or no snow on the pass, and the trail was 

 pretty rough. We attempted to follow the trail down 

 the Bubbs' Creek side, as shown on the map of the United 

 States Geological Survey, and got into some very bad 

 places. We discovered later that the trail goes directly 

 down the canon from the pass without bearing off to 

 the west. We ate lunch in the meadows below Lake 

 Charlotte, and soon after picked up the big, broad, well- 

 traveled Independence trail at Bullfrog Lake. That 

 night we camped at the base of the East Vidette. 



By II o'clock on the morning of July 27th, with our 

 mules and our outfit whole, we arrived at Kanawyer's 

 Camp in the King's River Canon, and our great trip 

 was over. 



The appended sketch map shows our route. The 

 heavy dotted line shows our main High Mountain Route. 

 Side trips, sheep trails, and other animal routes known 

 or reported to be passable, are shown by lighter dotted 

 lines. Suggested possible cut-offs are shown by rows of 

 crosses. Of these nothing definite is known. They 

 merely indicate regions which require more careful explo- 

 ration. The High Mountain Route as traversed by our 

 party in 1908 covered about 228 miles, though including 

 side trips we ourselves walked over 300 miles. We were 

 out in all 27 days, but the actual time required to make 

 the through trip was only 20 days. 



