July 17, 1906, Tuesday 
Very warm. last night with myriads of sand flies. 
Thousands came through the canopy. Cote' came 
in with a 25 pound balmon taken on the trout 
fly rod. Cloudy all day- mostly very warm. 
In the vac ini ty of 8.00 A. M. we started up- 
river again- most of the poling was very difficult 
with a great deal of wading for the canoemen. 
Reached our last years camping place at the foot 
of Mount Albert train soon after 1*00 P. M. 
In the P. M. sorted things for the trip up the 
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mountain, which 0 plan to take tomorrow. Out first 
view of Mt. Albert about noon showed twelve snow 
fields near the summit. Roy and Perry dried 
driers this P. M. Cote* and Joe went up the 
mountain to see the condition to the trail, 
July 18, 1906, Wednesday 
Very rainy last night. Showery all day. Started 
about 9.00 A. M. for the trip up the mountain. 
Arrived at last years camp site (3250 feet) 
about 1.30 P. M. and then proceeded up to the 
tableland hoping to find a good place to camp 
there, but could not, so returned axid capped in 
the same place as last year. Big areas of snow 
across the trail near tableland. About 3.00 p.~" 
Cote', uoy, and Perry went down the mountain for 
anotherp.oad of suppoies. Soe stayed up with us. 
Most 01 the P. M. was devoted to making camp. 
Fernald and I have separate tents. 
