Mollie Adams Diary of Her Journey in the Canadian Rockies June 23, 1908
Moss Camp, Tuesday, June 23
Aneroid makes the altitude here 4850 this A.M. Last night 5050. Clearer looking weather than for two weeks past, but clouds still low. At Mosquito Camp it varied from 4800 to 4900. 4 hrs. 40 minutes. Got off at 10:20 intending to camp at the foot of the big hill, but found so little feed there W. thought [it] best to go on up to Camp Parker. The aneroid made the hill 1000 ft. 5800 at the top. It took 40 minutes to go up. I rode Pinto up the hill, much to Muggin’s surprise. He evidently thought I had not business to get on his master’s horse. There have been an unusual number of snow slides here this spring. An enormous one just before reaching camp from the east side of the valley must have come down while the snow lay so deep that most of the small trees and bushes were not disturbed, but it uprooted trees 18 inches in diameter and carried them long distances, ran across the creek and knocked down large trees 100 yds. up the other slope. A great mass of snow in the creek bed now. More snow lilies than I ever saw before, beautiful forget-me-nots and all sorts of things. Mr. B. growing a little enthusiastic. Camped (3 P.M.) south of the open slide wherer the horses feed, pleasanter than the regular camp, but they had to make a long carry with the tent poles. M. and I out for a little walk after lunch. Took my hammer and found fossils in the rocks that we are camping on. It looks like a rather squeezed black lst. Dip about 20° n. e. Not at all sure whether it is above or below the one with the coral fossils that Dr. Gruber wants. Found pieces of that at the foot of a steep little creek from the west side of the N. Fork a little below the big hill. Anderoid gave 6050 ft. here.
Aneroid makes the altitude here 4850 this A.M. Last night 5050. Clearer looking weather than for two weeks past, but clouds still low. At Mosquito Camp it varied from 4800 to 4900. 4 hrs. 40 minutes. Got off at 10:20 intending to camp at the foot of the big hill, but found so little feed there W. thought [it] best to go on up to Camp Parker. The aneroid made the hill 1000 ft. 5800 at the top. It took 40 minutes to go up. I rode Pinto up the hill, much to Muggin’s surprise. He evidently thought I had not business to get on his master’s horse. There have been an unusual number of snow slides here this spring. An enormous one just before reaching camp from the east side of the valley must have come down while the snow lay so deep that most of the small trees and bushes were not disturbed, but it uprooted trees 18 inches in diameter and carried them long distances, ran across the creek and knocked down large trees 100 yds. up the other slope. A great mass of snow in the creek bed now. More snow lilies than I ever saw before, beautiful forget-me-nots and all sorts of things. Mr. B. growing a little enthusiastic. Camped (3 P.M.) south of the open slide wherer the horses feed, pleasanter than the regular camp, but they had to make a long carry with the tent poles. M. and I out for a little walk after lunch. Took my hammer and found fossils in the rocks that we are camping on. It looks like a rather squeezed black lst. Dip about 20° n. e. Not at all sure whether it is above or below the one with the coral fossils that Dr. Gruber wants. Found pieces of that at the foot of a steep little creek from the west side of the N. Fork a little below the big hill. Anderoid gave 6050 ft. here.
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