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filled with my impedimenta, became a boat, leaving me free to 

 wade or swim. 



The trip from Muir Gorge to Hetch-Hetchy Valley is spoken 

 of in the Bulletin as "long and tedious," whereas I found it 

 delightfully easy compared with what preceded, and in conse- 

 quence its variety of charms was the more enjoyed. If still sound, 

 I should look with great disfavor upon leaving the cool, trout- 

 filled, down-grade river, with its generous sprinkling of cascades, 

 rapids, long pools, and meadows below Pait Valley, either afoot 

 or on horseback, for the hot, dry climb up the uncertain rocky 

 trail 3,100 feet to the Tioga Road as advised in the Bulletin 

 article referred to. It was an easy one day's tramp from Pait 

 Valley to Hetch-Hetchy Valley, and another less easy one day's 

 tramp out to Crocker's, full of interest all the way. 



The trout in the canon bit at brown hackle, black fly, and red 

 ant flies m.orning, noon, or night, but I caught four fish on a 

 No. o Wilson spoon at the end of my leader to every one I 

 caught on a fly. 



When the grand Kolana Rock of Hetch-Hetchy Valley finally 

 loomed up ahead about half a day out of Hetch Hetchy near the 

 end of my cafion tramp I felt as relieved and delighted as if I 

 had seen at the end of a long ocean voyage the well-known Twin 

 Peaks of my native city, or as the Greeks under Xenophon did 

 when they again beheld their well-loved sea, with the difference 

 that I wanted to remain there indefinitely. It was with keen 

 regret that I left my last camp among the pines, the rapids, the 

 cliff's, the trout, the sunshine, and the other wild and refreshing 

 charms of primeval nature in the Grand Canon of the Tuolumne. 

 Very truly yours, 



S. L. Foster. 



Memorial of the Sierra Club of California to the President 

 AND Congress of the United States in -Relation to the 

 Recession of the Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa 

 Big Tree Grove to the United States by the State of 

 California. 



The Sierra Club of California respectfully presents the following 

 memorial to the President and Congress of the United 

 States: 



Whereas, The Legislature of the State of California has 

 passed "An act [copy appended hereto] to recede and regrant unto 

 the United States of America the 'Yosemite Valley' and the land 

 embracing the 'Mariposa Big Tree Grove,' " which act was duly 

 approved by the Governor of said State March 3, 1905; 



Whereas, In 1864 the little known and at that time recently 



