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byway, but now a highway, into the heart of the Sierra. As such a 

 highway, it in considerable measure spells prosperity for Bishop. 



A half-mile above the lower of the Dusy Lakes, where the creek 

 runs quietly between narrow banks of deepest alpine green, we made 

 camp. Down Dusy Creek, away across Le Conte Canon, the mighty 

 Black Divide was already lost in the dying day. Winchell and 

 Agassiz Needle, twin guardians of Dusy Basin, gradually withdrew 

 eastward from our fire circle. Here is an alpine camp the memory 

 of which makes the blood run fast. 



The trail down the north side of Bishop Pass is steep but well 

 graded. Long Lake, at the head of "navigation" on the South Fork 

 of Bishop Creek, is smaller than any of the three upper Rae Lakes 

 with which it has been compared. Its peninsula and two or three 

 islands are covered with rich green verdure, blue waters and gray- 

 granite shores making a striking contrast. A mile below Long Lake 

 the traveler picks up an old road and passes the remains of a saw- 

 mill surrounded by stumps and timber-slashings. At South Lake, 

 two miles below, the wooden dam of the old California-Nevada 

 Light and Power Company still renders tribute to its offspring, the 

 Southern Sierras Company. 



Eight miles below us at Andrews Camp the two ends of the magic 

 circle were to be joined. Within that circle are countless amphi- 

 theaters yet unexplored — countless "trails" yet untrod. Here are 

 the sources of two great rivers whose courses thousands behold, 

 whose springs few have ever seen. Twilight purpled the hills about 

 Owens Lake as our train sped southward. Olancha Peak, the first 

 to greet us, was the last to say good-by. 



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"Search for a Route from Yosemite to Kings River Canon." By Theodore S. 

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"Mt. Goddard and Its Vicinity— In the High Sierra of California." By Theo- 

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"First Ascent: Mt. Humphreys." By J. S. Hutchinson. Sierra Club Bulle- 

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"Northward Over the John Muir Trail." By Francis P. Farquhar. Sierra 

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"An Ascent of Mount Humphreys." By G. R. Bunn. Sierra Club Bulletin, 

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"First Ascent of Mount Haeckel." By Walter L. Huber. Sierra Club Bulle- 

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