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extended view of the Great Western Divide. Again, from here, the 

 Black Kaweah was the most dominant peak in the whole horizon. 



Upon arriving at Roaring River we found Mr. and Mrs. Ralph 

 Merritt in a beautiful camp just above the bridge. We established 

 our camp a mile above them, in Cloudy Canon, a short distance 

 above the junction of Deadman* (elevation, 7600 feet). From this 

 point it is possible to make many delightful side-trips — Moraine 

 Meadow, Avalanche Pass, Sphinx Lakes, Josephine Lake, Sentinel 

 Dome, Mount Brewer, etc. Another trip which I would suggest, but 

 I am not sure that it can be made, is along Glacier Ridge — a 

 wonderfully glaciated ridge dividing Cloudy and Deadman cafions. 



One very fine trip which should not be missed is up Deadman 

 Canon. We wished to explore this canon with some degree of care, 

 and so decided to take our pack-train and spend one night at its 

 upper end. In this canon are a number of beautiful meadows 

 filled with wonderful wild flowers. After traveling for an hour you 

 come to the grave of a French sheep-herder, murdered there in 1887. 

 It is this grave which gives the canon its name. Our camp was made 

 in an ideal spot, on a glacial bench, with a wonderful outlook in all 

 directions and near a point where the stream comes tumbling down 

 from Bird (or Dollar) Lake. That night, long after dark, v/e were 

 delighted by a most unexpected visit from Mr. Le Conte, who 

 dropped in on us from Horse Corral Meadow. 



The next morning some of the party returned with the packs to 

 our Cloudy Canon camp, while the rest ascended to the head of 

 Deadman and crossed Glacier Ridge into the headwaters of Cloudy 

 Canon. From near the head of Deadman, looking back, one obtains 

 a view of the finest U-shaped glacial canon in the Sierra. The view 

 as you cross the ridge into Cloudy Canon is most impressive, for you 

 have the Great Western Divide from Brewer to Sawtooth laid out 

 distinctly before you. We were particularly absorbed with the 

 stretch from Milestone to Triple Divide, because we knew that 

 somewhere there — just where we could not tell — ^lay the saddle 

 which Mr. Colby believed to be passable.! The saddle between 

 Triple Divide and the next peak north—a very red mountain — 

 looked best, but we knew it was not the place we were after. | 



* Much confusion has arisen over the names of these cafions. The original Tehipite 

 sheet has the names correct — that is, Deadman Cafion to the west and Cloudy Cafion 

 to the east. On the more recent sheets the names are incorrectly given, the western cafion 

 being called Copper and the eastern Deadman. 



t See Sierra Club Bulletin, vol. IX, No. i, page 2. 

 $ See Sierra Club Bulletin, vol. VIII, No. 3, page 167. 



