3 revel in the chapters of the book that tells of the ground we had so recently seen over. It brings our happy outing so
vividly before me and I am trying to get the plant life into some of my brain cells that seem so hopelessly leaky. Are you
not glad to be relieved from repeating all those dear p illegible ous to me on an average of a dozen times daily? Donald and
I enjoyed our Tahoe trip very much, we climbed Tallac and traveled over to desolation valley but we missed our party sorely
and I found that mountaineering had lost much of its zest for me when there was no one to call me names. We found the spring
at Glen Alpine the sweetest? in our explored world and were delighted to find a new tree - the Sierra hemlock. Mrs Pierce
called it.