Kooky Mountain Trip 
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tbe bridge that crosses to Lima among the Cottonwood trees. 
Aug, 31st i Got ready at an early hour for a side trip 
to Blaine fesk in the Summit district 40 miles souths-rot of Del 
Boric. Wilson, Atkinson and 1 set out with a couple of pack 
mules. Followed the wagon road to the lumit mines, 30 miles, 
and -passed on through the swampy highland ami camped at sundown 
within 6 or 7 miles of the peak. 
dept., 1st : Blaine peak (?) Stsssnit District« Rode over 
to the peak and hitched within less than 1000 feet of the summit . 
Host of the way was over swampy land and boggy elopes. The peak 
is not extraordinary. is trachytic and steep on the north Side. 
Got iny first good view of the Ban Juan Mountains, which with the 
great igaartsiiio group beyond with its thousand sharks teeth sum¬ 
mits, made one of the sublime s-t of mountain panorama The grand 
mass of summits with their bare scarred sides arid the dusky tinted 
slopes descending into the blue depths of the omaom and valleys; 
the ragged crags of the foreground ar.d the extremely long and 
steep slides amt timbered slopes of the valley head beneath us. 
The speckled checkered mixture of colors near the timber lines 
and the undefined shapes and distances and a pecul.iar*ly inter* 
eating showery sky, all should be seen and wondered at and por¬ 
trayed by the p&ta&er* To the west and the valleys of the north 
branches of the Ban Juan, the Laplata mountains could bo seen; 
beyond this the Mobs. Verde and the tips of the sssmmits of Sato 
To the south the low country of the San. Juan basin and beyond 
this the G arras and Tonocha mountains * I made a somewhat do - 
tailed sketch of the traehytic group to the south* The western 
mad southern border of the Summit district; Banded Mt. is the 
