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Kooky Mountain Trip 
Sept* £Olh i Homeward Bound. followed our little r hug 
war" trail directly toward the L& Plat a. Cam in an hour eanonceia 
spring and five or six miles farther on struck the large trail 
which we followed for 'two days out from Dolores, To our surprise 
a party with wagons and cattle had passed along, going toward 
Parrott City. Crossed the wagon trail and hurried on toward the 
Dolores. Came at midday to the brink of a precipitous gulch that 
led down to the Canon at a point almost on a line between lb a jo 
and Lone Cone, the glimpse of the canon afforded was fine mid X 
was almost startled at the great depth md unexpected steepness. 
We had expected to cross but such a feat was out of the question. 
We must follow up the right side of the river until wo reached 
Vm point at Which X had crossed last year* The trail which we 
had followed did not enter the canon but terminated at a spring 
near the head of the gulch Just mentioned. Wo* 1, of which there 
appears perhaps a hundred feet, caps the canon wail and gives 
sharp cliffs and angles along the upper edges. Under this is a 
steep slope of some 800 or 900 feet occupied by the Jurassic 
sandstones and marls. This part is much plnon covered. Beneath 
this slope appears the red vertical walls of the triassie, which 
extend as far do mi as 1 was able to see* The Impossibility of 
seeing to the bottom, together with the steepness and extreme 
narrowness, made the view very impressive. The depth Is prob¬ 
ably 14 or 1500 feet. This Is probably no ax- the deepest part 
as the plateau seems to break off to the north and slopes off to 
the south. We lunched and turned our faces toward L&plata again. 
Late in the evening we descended into the canon some three miles 
below our crossing point last year and eassped about irdle below 
