[Extracts from diary of J.F.C.] 
July 6, 1923. Cloudy. Bainy and cold. Got up at Cap Chat about 6.30 a.m. 
and had breakfast at 7. Temperature 54°. Left Cap Chat about 10.30, 
after going to the bank,aM leaving our money and taking a receipt for it. 
Baggage went on team and we in two autos. Beached Emend*s, the last 
clearing and the end of the auto road, 6 miles more or less, soon after 
noon and had dinner there, mom Eracnd*s we walked to the Locked Camp, 
10 3/4 miles by pedometer, most of the way in the rain. Beached the Locked 
Camp in 4 1/2 hours, cold and wet. Supper of ham and eggs. 
July 7. Left Locked Camp at 11 a.m. and after walking up the tote-road for 
about half a mile we crossed to the other side of the Cap Chat river on 
a raft built earlier in the day by Fortin, Thibault and Lugas, and entered 
the unbroken and uncharted wilderness. Very wet as we started out because 
rain had fallen 411 night. 1 started out axfci wearing rubbers and rubber 
fucg a s BXs overalls, but soon took them off as useless incumberances for 
we frequently had to wade brooks. We all carried packs ranging from 30 
to 80(9) lbs., the heatfy ones being carried by Fortin, Thibault and Lugas. 
We arrived in a large cirque-like basin plater designated as Fernald Basin] 
near the entrance to iiettle At avine [*e designated by x ernald and Pease the 
preceding year] about 5.30 p.m. at an altitude of 1110* (aneroid). Probably 
6 or 8 miles. We pitched 3 tents-** the guides in one; Dodge, Smith and 1 
in my tent; Fernald, Pease, McKenzie and Griscom in larger tent,-## 
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July 8 (Sunday). Mostly clear, good day for views from the mountain. After 
breakfast of ham, hardtack, partridge, etc.,we all started ijlp for the summit 
of the pass. We wont up the basin A tfo re maid Pass, where we ate lunch of 
hardtack, peanut butter and raisins. The climbing before sta lunch was 
very difficult, up through dense scrub covered exceedingly steep,slopes 
where the regid branches were interlocked and pointing downwards as if to 
defend the approach to the £ass by a closely set array of wooden bayonets. 
We were all very tired when we reached the little lake in Fernald Pass. 
The collecting on the stee^ ( slope-^of nearly bare r£dge to the south of the 
pass was particularly alpine^ we wnet ^ to Jrhe top of the mountain to the 
south, called Mt. Logan by Coleman and also by Bernald and Pease in 1922, 
[really Mt. Mattaouisse] and along the summit ridge for probably more than 
a mile where we had a fine view of Mt. Bayfield, some 10 miles to the wvJt- 
southwest, and of the valley immediately south of us. We saw Mt. albert 
(20 miles +) and Tabletop (30 miles) to the eastward, from the slope above 
Fernald Pass. We wBat along the ridge to the westward for 2 miles, x&wh 
going down through a^s f a^d^ some 200 or 300 feet deep and up on to the 
summit of the unnamed ^dcme' (jLater designated as :t. Collins] at the western 
end of the ridge, to a point nearly due south of out camp in the basin a 
mile and a half away and 2400 feet below us. Prom here, with Pease as our 
leader, we descended by much zigzagging a steep wet and slippery ravine 
[later designated as "Little Gully"] which Joined Kettle Gully about two- 
thirds of the way down the mountain. Hone of ikje our three "guides" was 
with us today. Dugas ill with laryngitis (as he thought) but really a stomach 
upset, xgjaxaxaxgx*Kixaxi:txa8K*xdBKx,.LgxlgxXEMxg&xp and stayed in camp all 
day~-better tonight. Fortin and Thibault v/ent down to locked camp and 
brought up loads of supplies and food. We got back to camp a few ninutes 
after Fortin and Thibault returned from the Locked Camp. 7 or 8 miles of 
hard travelling up and down the mountains today. All very tired at night 
and went to bed early. 
