Rocky Llountain Trip 
shows some 300 foot more Of strata - sandstone and slialj beds 
capped Pith a massive sandstone. 
Passed through Dr in id ad - Uhl eh i.c a lively little tom* - mostly 
American. Ke ached canp half way up Pistes? Peak before night. 
19 th ? Hade an early start Per the svmiit of Fishers 
Peak# The castlo-liko suniult hung high above us, the basaltic 
cliffs appearing almost vertical md certainly difficult to scale 
ffe kept up the left face of a ridge that led up to the peak aai 
approached the base of the turret-like summit freer. northeast. 
Found, a high hitching place for o\c- mules in a little at phithea- 
tor T-'ithln 000 feet of the top* On climbing up we soor found 
ourselves on the crest of c ridge that connects the poal; with 
the tableland to the cast, Thic narrow sinuous .Utluttxs appears 
In one of my sketches - see large booh. The basalt is from 500 
to 700 feet thick and fop the last ISO to 200 forms a vortical 
aordeolranar wall - The swWdt has a nearly flat table of several 
acres in extent covered with grass and flowers * The view from 
the summit is of consi&er&ble interest. Pikes Posh appears in 
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the north. f lhe Oreehhora mmi&ins and the Spanish peaks follow 
to the west and the Calabra group and range continue to the 
south# The great broken ligaliie table land lies under us to 
the west, circling from near its Spanish peaks at the north far 
