the bridge that crosses to Luna among the Cottonwood trees. 
Aug. 51st : Got ready at an early hour for a side trip 
to Blaine peak in the Summit district 40 miles southwest of Del. 
Norte. Wilson, Atkinson and I set out with a couple of pack 
mules. Followed the wagon road to the Summit mines, 30 miles, 
and passed on through the swampy highland and camped at sundown 
within 6 or 7 miles of the peak. 
Sept. 1st; Blaine peak (?) Summit District. Node over 
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to. the peak and hitched within less than 1000 feet of the summit. 
Most of the way was over swampy land and boggy slopes. The peak 
is not extraordinary, is tr achy tic and steep on the north side. 
Got my first good view of the San Juan Mountains, which with the 
great Quarts itic group beyond with its thousand sharks teeth sum¬ 
mits, made one of the sublimest of mountain panoramas. The grand 
mass of summits with their bare scarred sides and the dusky tinted 
slopes descending into the blue depths of the canons and valleys; 
the ragged crags of the foreground and the extremely long and 
steep slides and timbered slopes of the valley head beneath us. 
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The speckled checkered mixture of dolors near the timber lines 
and the undefined shapes and distances and a peculiarly inter¬ 
esting showery sky, all should be seen and wondered at and por¬ 
trayed by the painter. To the west and the valleys of the north 
branches of the Ban Juan, the Laplata mountains could be seen; 
beyond this the Mesa Verde and the tips of the summits of Sate. 
To the south the low country of the San Juan basin and beyond 
this the C arms tan d Tunecha mountains. I made a somewhat de¬ 
tailed sketch of the trachytic group to the south. The western 
and southern border of the Summit district; Banded Mt. is the 
