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<br />.,j o'n A <1 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Down to jeep, to camp neaar seedhouse. Meadows with crek, boggy and willows. <br /> <br />Doe. Camprobbers, rain. Voluble squabbling of the aquirrels. Thumping rain <br />\\ <br />" <br />of sunrise cones, squirrel-cut. Lakes up canyon from camp. Water. <br /> <br />Rain and 6 mils up the SF. Trailhead in t e wet wods, slick creek crossing. <br /> <br />Many meadows, Some bogs. Tr il on the south wall, spacious vistas of neadows. <br /> <br />Soppyng boots and more bogs. Snow near the MT Zirkel Wilderness sign, back to <br /> <br />which forlunch. Much water, poor trail alignments. Up a steep pitch to <br /> <br />Dome Lake; ge1idK wind, foggy clouds impending, drizzle, steady blast of <br /> <br />windoff the lake. Mountain lake water frigid, short summer; shredded clouds <br /> <br />obscure the Dome. Vegetative taste to the water. W <br /> <br />Quickly down the pitch on greaqy rollers of mud to the ,irkel sign to grit. <br /> <br />Camp Hog Parks-- tie hacking turf, old guard ssation. Tie hacking--down <br /> <br />logs of size, and the hacker with double bitted ax trues twosides, .eaving the <br /> <br />aters half round. Hogs are whores; the servicing cribs for the hackers <br /> <br />in this area name thepark, creek and <br /> <br />heyenne -ownedreservoi~. Ground fogs gui1ded by the sun; prismatic dewdrops <br /> <br />draped from needles; squelchy. Track deer badly, Drive around to Encampment <br /> <br />Wy for temp licences. Plains appear, hugeseas broken by mountain blocks the <br /> <br />clouds (Powell) sculpte. Back for afternoon walk. Steep small (150 cfs <br /> <br />) strream, garnering tribusaries constantly. Improved trail. At conf. Hog <br /> <br />Park creek blocky rapids begin--strong roughly perpendicular jointing. Gorge, <br /> <br />trailon wall. Note concrete control1for parometer watershed on North Fork ca <br /> <br />RM i. Then flats, tracking calf and cow elU on trail. Coyote or catshit on <br /> <br />trail, Wavy trail, up wall and down. High water mark to black lichen about <br /> <br />2-4 feet, est. 2500 cfs. Max high water mark ca 6-8 ft, est 8K, Granitic. <br /> <br />Cabins, old flume collapsed and rotted. <br /> <br />Camp, fishing not good. Trail steep up the wall and a mile or two of <br /> <br />steep river gradient, class 5 est. Where trail regains the water blocking <br /> <br />filters, water underboulders. Gardient ca iQ 150-200. Checked flows above <br /> <br />Hog park ck said co be 400-600 (I), mouth max said to bee 1000-1500, max <br />