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on August 4th cribbing up the trail down a very steep slope on the 

 Piute side. On the next day we took our horses to the head of the 

 lake on the north side of what is known, on the Goddard quadrangle,, as 

 the Glacier Divide. When we reached this lake we found that we had 

 not prospected far enough, and, after a hurried reconnoissance, ascer- 

 tained that it would be necessary to do a great deal of work to make 

 a passable trail over the rock fields surrounding the lake. For this we 

 needed tools, and I walked to Blaney Meadow, sixteen miles away, to 

 get the proper tools, returning next day at noon. I found the rangers 

 hard at work chinking the trail through the rocks. With the aid of 

 the tools and additional help, we managed to get the horses out to a 

 little feed at the foot of the first lake that night, and by working hard 

 the next day, finally made out into Piute Canon on the 7th. We monu- 

 mented the trail from John Shipp's old sheep camp on the bench above 

 Evolution Creek to the lower lake on the Piute side. I would certainly 

 not advise anyone to attempt to make this trip with any horses that he 

 cared about. We were very lucky to get out without injury to the stock, 

 and this is largely due to the fact that the snowfall has been unusually 

 light this year. We were able to get through, I believe, because of the ab- 

 sence of immense snow-banks that are usually found on the north side of 

 the Glacier Divide. If there were no more snow any year than there 

 was this year, it would only take about one hundred dollars to con- 

 struct a good burro trail over the ridge which we followed, but before 

 advising any one to tackle it, even with burros, I would suggest that 

 the route be investigated on foot most thoroughly before taking any 

 stock in. 



Evolution Creek and the South Fork of the San Joaquin, as well as 

 Piute and French Cafion, are to my mind ideal streams for fishing pur- 

 poses and I plan to make some attempt next year to see that some of 

 these streams are stocked with a suitable species of trout. 



Paul G. Redington, 

 Forest Supervisor Sierra National Forest. 

 North Fork, Cal., August 16, 1912. 



The Value of Winter Sports. 



One of the most wholesome and encouraging signs of the times and 

 the most triumphant proof of the conquest of the human body over 

 the Frost King is the increasing vogue and popularity of winter sports 

 and winter outdoor games of all sorts, even during the chilliest and most 

 inclement days of the year. The most delightful and exhilarating sports 

 of the whole year are those which can be indulged in only in times of 

 frost and snow, such as snowbaUing, skating, hockey upon the ice, 

 curling, skeeing, coasting, tobogganing, and snowshoeing. 



We have begun to rediscover the country and to realize that it has 

 charms not only in summer but in winter. It is even becoming as fash- 

 ionable to go out of town for Christmas as it is for the Fourth of July 



