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2 Mt Tyndall adjacent mtns Canons. I ascended Tyndall ran down into the Kern R Canon climbed some name- less mtns between
Tyndall Whitney thus gained a pretty good general idea of the region After crossing the range by the Kearsage pass I again
left the Doc Bill, pushed southward along the range W ward up Cottonwood Crk to Mt Whitney then over to the Kern Canons again
up to the new underlined: highest peak wh I did not ascend as their was no one to attend to my horse; Thus you see I have
rambled this highest portion of the Sierra pretty thouroughly though hastily I spent a night without fire or food in a very
icy wind storm on one of the spires of the 3 new highest peak by some called Fishermans Peak That I am already quite
recovered from the tremendous exposure proves that I cannot be killed in any such manner on the day previous I climbed two
mtns making over 10,000 ft of altitude. I saw no mtns in all this grand region that appeared at all inaccessible to a mountaineer,
give me a summer a bunch of matches a sack of meal I will climb every mtn in the region I have passed through Lone Pine noted
the Yosemite local subsidences accom- plished by the earthquakes The bunchy bushy composital of Owens Valley is intensely