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Sierra Club Bulletin. 



high, really appears from the eastern side, with its vertical 

 front and its clean-cut sky-line more majestic than the 

 great, scarred El Capitan. 



From Lost River Valley the steep, down-hill way to 

 Snow Creek beside the riotous stream and under the 

 spreading branches is simply a tedious repetition of talus 

 or moraine, underbrush and fallen tree-trunks, requiring 

 four long, weary hours for the author, with his load of 

 knapsack and bed, and following in many welcome places 

 a well-marked bear trail. At Snow Creek, at the end of 

 the Mirror Lake trail and a few miles above the lake, 

 paper bags, egg shells and empty sardine cans told that 

 civilization was near. 



If unincumbered one can stick to the right-hand side 

 of the stream right through, making use at the high falls 

 of the few stunted yellow pines and junipers and the 

 fifty-foot rope. If encumbered with sleeping bag and 

 knapsack, it will be found easier to go on the left-hand side 

 when passing the precipice at the lower end of Glacial 

 Valley. Nails on the sides of the heels are advisable 

 on this trip. My one regret was that I did not carry a 

 camera instead of three pounds of unused rope. 



This trip is a very interesting, somewhat laborious 

 ' short trip, dropping 4,000 feet in an advance of about 

 eight miles. The danger from falling fragments of 

 granite is present during about half the trip and is an 

 appreciable risk. The geology of the cafion is striking, 

 with its glacial pavements, domes, cirques, and moraines, 

 but I saw no unusual flowers, except twinberry and azalea, 

 that cannot be found at the foot of Mt. Hoffman with 

 greater comfort and in greater profusion. Practically 

 from the time one leaves Tenaya Lake Valley every step 

 must be carefully considered. In other words, the trip 

 down the canon is one long feat of mental concentration,' 

 with little of that care-free feeling that is supposed to go 

 with vacations. 



That a permanent and safe trail will be built in the 

 near future from Yosemite Valley to Tenaya Lake 



