Rocky Mountain Trip 
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In and beneath this marl, however, are some beds of heavy sand¬ 
stone. The main sandstone capping the bluffs Is from 20 to 40 
feet thick. Following the dim trail we soon came to another. 
Sept. 15th: Spring under the bluff to the left. Here 
there is quite a strong flow of water. Ascending to the plain 
the trail led us by a curious echelon movement indefinitely in 
the direction both of the Sierra Abajo and the Sierra LaSal. So 
sidelong were the approaches to the Abajo that we dubbed the 
trail the !i Hug war” trail. The plain is here densely covered 
with sage. There are a few pinons and a fair supply of grass 
and flowers. Finding that we were getting too far north, we 
left the trail and turned down a little flat that led off toward 
the Abajo. 7/e had gone but a few rods when we struck a small 
trail that led us pretty directly toward the range. The moun¬ 
tains begin now to show more distinctly and we can see that there 
are largo clusters of timber about the base and on the protected 
sides of the ridges. Presently we struck a little canon in which 
were pools of water. No. 1 Is still the prevailing rocky although 
on higher knolls there are patches of shale. Kept steadily on 
over sage flats and pinon plats until at four o’clock we came to 
the canon of Montezuma, within five miles of the base of the 
main mountain slope. The canon walls of Ho. 1 sandstone are very 
abrupt and difficult to scab. The little trail we followed led 
us safely across. There is a little running water. The drainage 
of the entire eastern faces of the group is Into the Montezuma - 
the small streams or rather gulches, for they are 
east and strike the canon at right angles. The s 
'are massive, hard, coarse, gritty, greatly cross 
dry-run to the 
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