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Hockett Trail
From the Carrol Creek camp I could look directly up the canon and see the perpendicular walls of the High Sierras. They seemed so near that the hand might be put out to them. Here and there I had noticed the forest covering peeping over. The pines on the high slopes and meadows between Little Cottonwood & Mulkey Meadows are Tamarack, Foxtail, and near Little Cotttonwood, Pinus Jeffreyi? with a large Yellow Pine-like cone.
- Astragalus lentiginous Dougl. var.albifolius Jones. No.913. Cont. from p.144.
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Big Cottonwood Meadow.
The meadows are similar to William Meadows & others: [Pentstamun confertum], the yellow fl. Ivesia of William's Meadows, Mimulus primuloides, the Mimulus bordering high montane brooks with clammy foliage (No. 868) as at Kearsarge Pass.
We camped two days at Cottonwood Meadow, hoping that I should recover from my injury. But blood still comes from my lungs - not in serious quantity - but it seems wisest to go straight down the Hockett Trail and leave Mt. Whitney for another trip.
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