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Yosemite Valley Sep 3d 1843 Dear Sister Sarah, I have just returned from the longest hardest trip I have ever made in the
mtns., having been gone over five weeks. I am weary but resting fast, Sleepy but sleeping deep fast, hungry but eating much
For two weeks I explored the glaciers of the summits east of here, sleeping among the snowy mtns without blankets with but
little to eat on account of its being so inaccess- ible. After my icy experiences it seems strange to be down here in so warm
flowery a climate I will soon be off again determined to use all the season in prosecuting my researches will go next to Kings
river a hundred miles south, then to Lake Tahoe adjacent mtns. in winter work in Oakland with my pen