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4_134 Lone Pine Creek to in his night clothes! Next day we were tired out and made Carrol Creek with difficulty about 1:30 oclock. At this point at the base of the hills the Hockett Trail - "trunk road" of the pack trains to Visalia - starts up. The slopes of the Inyo Range, naked, desolate, are nevertheless fascinating to gaze at on account of the numerous colors - terra-cota to brick-reds, purples, violets, slates, grays, drabs, yellows and browns. The colors are so disposed that I could |
4_135 Carrol Creek, July 19, 1900 not resist their being shadows - in spite of the color - and in spite of myself repeatedly looked to the sky - to cloudless sky - to see where the clouds were. Away south towards the end of the range a great strip is black and this is more deceiving as to its being a shadow. South eastward in a gap over the strange Owen's Lake I see range after range glorious in their sunset purples - and one very large mountain somewhat apart from the rest. |
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