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Hydes Mill North Fork Kaweah Nov 2d 1877 My dear Mother My Kings River walk is done in a couple of weeks or thereabouts
Ill be back in S F at work for the winter I went up the South Fork Canon down the Middle Fork according to my plan sent you.
The trip has been a very trying one a storm three days without food ten days of exhausting cliff work but I have been wholly
successful nevertheless though faint in making the last climb of 5000 feet out of the canon Im rested well as ever already,
the results are truly glorious. A new Yosemite in one of the most remote unaccessable fastnesses of the range with finer sculpture
than I have ever before seen in all the Sierras some thirty first class calaracts from 2,000 to 4000 ft high three new Sequoia
forests a fine fact about bears with landscapes lakes meadows etc beyond telling about. Probably Ill have no more work of
this kind to do in the range.