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4_104 Bullfrog Lake, 10,634 ft. Up the north side of the Kearsarge Pinnacles there is nothing but Pinus albicaulis. I hoped to find some perfect cones but there were only husks sticking over the tops of the trees. The brown squirrels have been ahead of me; - this was also the case down below, great skeletons of trunks sprawl over the ground or rather great granite rocks, 2 ft. through, gnarled and twisted or bent into dragon-like shapes. Leaves in 5's (or 4's). Erect trunks white |
4_105 July 14, 1900. with narrow transverse black markings. I notice a Foxtail Pine trunk checked almost like a Valley Oak but the checks larger. We are now in camp near the crest of the Sierra Nevada. The axis has a forbidding look. Destitute of trees and with not a sign of herbaceous vegetation - as seen from camp - the black and white ashy mass of Mt. Gould and the ridge generally looks not unlike the scenes of |
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