Our party consisted of five men and two small ponies only two years old, with a stock of provisions very small including that the old chief had given us.

We started on in the morning, following our faint trail till we came to the canon we had in view, and up this we turned as we had been directed, finding in the bottom a little running stream.

Timber began to appear as we ascended, and grass also.

There were signs of deer and grouse but we had no time to stop to hunt, for I had the only gun and while I hunted the others must lie idly by.

We reached the summit at a low pass, and just above, on the north side of the higher mountains were considerable banks of snow.