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Sierra Club Bulletin. 



Returning down the sky-line, we kept to the snow, 

 fair sHding where steep, but full of pot-holes with wind- 

 carved knife-edges on the level. Stopping for a plunge in 

 East Lake, we pushed on to Bubbs Creek below East 

 Creek Junction, where camp had shifted, and made up 

 lost sleep on a bed of chinquapin leaves beneath red firs. 



How the Outing Committee managed to repeatedly 

 shift camp to accommodate our restless natures will 

 always be a mystery, especially to the members of other 

 clubs who know a few of the difficulties to be overcome. 



Returned next day to main camp at Copper Creek. We 

 rested a day, and then started up Kings River again, keep- 

 ing on the left bank. Where Bubbs Creek came in from 

 the east we went north up South Paradise Valley Fork of 

 Kings River, stopping to photograph Mist Falls, where 

 the river takes a long slide, then leaps out of a groove 

 and drops in a rainbow misty sheet of white into a deep 

 pool below, a hot zigzag over huge granite talus and a 

 walk through a shady forest of white fir, cedar, sugar- 

 and yellow pine, brought us to junction of Woods Creek. 



Leaving camp the day following, we explored Muro 

 Blanco Canon, struggling through a tangled mass of chin- 

 quapin, willow, wild currant, gooseberry, and cherry, 

 through scattering yellow pine, red fir, and juniper, taking 

 refuge under some huge granite blocks as a thunder- 

 storm swept through the canon. This proved the fore- 

 runner of a series of storms which kept us in camp next 

 day and drenched the party who had come over Glenn 

 Pass from Bullfrog Lake to Rae Lake and down to 

 camp. 



The storm clearing somewhat, we took the trail up 

 Woods Creek to South Fork and up that stream to the 

 Rae Lake Basin. Crossing on a log over South Fork, 

 one of the party fell in and was rescued by the alert finan- 

 cier from Texas, who plunged to her aid and thus averted 

 a panic on the neighboring banks. 



No one could ever hope to describe the beauty of the 

 Rae Lake basin. The evening reflection in the lake, the 



