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might be practicable for some of the Club's experts to 

 verify any of the information contained in this article 

 that is new or in doubt, as I went as a pleasure-seeker 

 and not as a locating engineer of mountain trails. After 

 their report it might some day be in order for the Club 

 to make a recommendation to the Department of the 

 Interior on the subject. 



I omitted to state that the sheep trail that I followed 

 on the south side of the river from Echo Creek west 

 extends to the east of Echo Creek, as I noticed plain 

 blazes on the trees in that direction, but did not follow 

 the trail to the east of the creek on the south side of the 

 river. Upon further investigation a better ford than 

 the one that I used may be found to the east of Echo 

 Creek. 



In any case, I feel that it is now established that the 

 Merced Canon from Merced Lake to Yosemite Valley 

 was easily passable in August, 1908, for a man on foot 

 and would probably be so in August of other years for 

 one who finds himself in the upper Merced Cafion and is 

 looking for a clean, cool, convenient, and interesting way 

 out to Yosemite Valley. 



San Francisco, California, September 8, 1908. 



