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Sierra Club Bulletin. 



NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE. 



In addition to longer articles suitable for the body of the magazine, the editor 

 would be glad to receive brief memoranda of noteworthy trips or explorations, 

 together with brief comments and suggestions on any topics of general interest to 

 the Club. Descriptive or narrative articles, or notes concerning the animals, birds, 

 Ush, forests, trails, geology, botany, etc., of the mountains, will be acceptable. 



The office of the Sierra Club is Room 402 Mills Building, San Francisco, where 

 all Club members are welcome, and where all the maps, photographs, and other 

 records of the Club are kept. 



The Club would like to secure additional copies of those numbers of the Sierra 

 Club Bulletin which are noted in the list in this number as being out of print, 

 and we hope any member having extra copies will send them to the Secretary. 



Mount Goddard and the Head of Evolution Creek. 



I left the office here on June 21st for a trip which took me to the 

 Middle Fork of the Kings River, up Cartridge Creek, up the head of 

 the North Fork of Kings River, across by the Devil's Punch Bowl and 

 Hell-for-Sure Pass, to the head of the South Fork of the San Joaquin. 

 On August 1st District Ranger Boothe and myself left camp at the 

 lower end of Martha Lake and made the ascent of Mount Goddard. 

 The day was exceptionally clear and we could take in everything almost 

 from Mount Lyell to Mount Whitney. Register Book No. i of the 

 Sierra Club was examined and found to be somewhat mutilated, but still 

 very legible. (This book, as you know, was placed on the summit of 

 this peak in 1896.) I ascertained that fifty persons, including Boothe 

 and myself, had registered since the establishment of the register. We 

 prospected for a possible horse trail from the head of Martha Lake 

 around the southeast side of Goddard to the upper end of Wanda Lake, 

 but found an impassable barrier in a 300-foot cliff just this side of one 

 of the numerous lakes which dot this country. 



On our return to camp we found that Supervisor Hogue and Ranger 

 Crow, of the Inyo National Forest, in whose company we had been for 

 some time, had gone around the northwest side of Goddard to Lake 

 Wanda and found that it would be possible, by doing two or three hun- 

 dred dollars worth of work, to get a horse trail through to that lake. 

 They reported the route at present as dangerous and we decided not to 

 tackle it, as we had nine head of stock and did not care to take the 

 chance of losing any. We moved camp the next day to a lake at the 

 head of one of the forks of Evolution Creek, from which Professor 

 Le Conte had shown a possible cut-off trail to the head of Piute Canon. 

 On the following day. Supervisor Hogue and myself went up to the 

 two passes above this lake and decided that, with a little work, it 

 would be possible to get our stock into Piute. The four of us worked 



