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and at its eastern end by the boulders in what Professor Dudley 

 called the Kern-Kaweah Pass;* but for our party it certainly was an 

 open season, and we never had such fishing before. 



The following day we moved down to Junction Meadow. The 

 trail, such as it is, follows down the north side of the stream. It is 

 monumented rather imperfectly, but with care can be followed. In 

 some places there is rough rockwork, in others it is brushy, but 

 altogether is traversable by good animals. About a mile from Junc- 

 tion Meadow we reached some cascades and falls, where the river 

 makes a very precipitous descent. Here the trail is forced away 

 from the river and up a long rocky and steep chimney to the north. 

 This is the Kern-Kaweah Pass. It zigzags back and forth again 

 and again, is steep, but perfectly passable until within fifty feet of 

 the top, where it is blocked by some large boulders. Here we had to 

 unpack and carry our outfit to the top. The animals were gotten up 

 with the assistance of ropes, a very necessary precaution to prevent 

 their turning over backward. Finally, they were all at the top with- 

 out mishap, but it was very exciting work for a time. By five p.m. 

 we had made camp in Junction Meadow (elevation, 8ioo feet), 

 eleven miles by our trail from our Upper Cloudy Camp. 



I will not dwell upon the details of our trip down the Kern to 

 Funston Camp, to Moraine Lake, and finally to Buena Loma Camp 

 on the Chagoopa Plateau at the base of the Gray Kaweah. This 

 region has been ably described! and is well known to most Sierra 

 Club members. From here the party went by trail to the extreme 

 northwestern end of the Big Arroyo, to camp as near as possible to 

 the Black Kaweah. I wanted to get an intimate and close-up view 

 of the Kaweah Range, and so Mr. Torrey and I skirted around the 

 base of the peaks on the Chagoopa Plateau, following here and 

 there an indistinct and poorly monumented cattle-trail until it ended 

 in a rocky talus-slope in the third recess from the east, about oppo- 

 site the middle Kaweah. From here we still went westward, keeping 

 on a level, the going pretty rough and absolutely impossible for ani- 

 mals, until we reached the cirque which heads at the southern base 

 of the Black Kaweah. The country here became more open, with 

 small scattering meadows, and we soon saw signs where cattle had 

 been brought up directly from the Big Arroyo. The descent from 

 this point into the Big Arroyo was long and tedious. By two o'clock 



* See Sierra Club Bxtlletin, vol. II, No. 3, p. 188. 

 t See Sierra Club Bltlletin, vol. VII, No. i, p. 23. 



