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, Colo.,

Lost my fountain pen, so must use lead pencil for balance of trip. A beautiful morning. We got saddles for our horses and an extra saddle horse at the lodge and started up the creek at 9:55. Just above camp are two depressions which must be of glacial origin. The large is about 50 feet wide and 20 feet deep, nearly circular. Proceeding up gulch such depressions become more common and soon the typical hummocky topography of glaciated regions is found. Most of the depressions are dry. The stream and glacial debris is all volcanic, a dark colored lava, weathering gray, containing many zeolites, surface of many boulders pitted by solution of the zeolites. The road ends about a mile up