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{Centre aligned, printed letter head: "LAKE O'HARA CHALET-BUNGALOW CAMP HECTOR B.C."}
{Left aligned just above hand written letter, printed: "............193"}
up and put it in boiling water and then with
some bovril which is concentrated beef extract
it made delicious soup. vitone? is very good.
Its almost like coaco. Comes in a powder of
chocolate malt I guess it is, and you just add
that to hot water too. We had tea as well.
[?] sugar for that and then we had milk {crossed out below the word milk: "cream"}
in both powdered and liquid condensed forms.
The [kli..] powder we never opened and the other
we had an awful time using up and finally
ended by drinking it today. Next time I
don't think we will bothrr taking it. We
found we had plenty to eat by having
bread, bacon, honey etc or vitone? for breakfast.
tea, soup, or vitone? for lunch with bully beef
bread and honey and the same for supper
and as everything tastes twice as good
out doors we thought we fared? very well.

{Left of written text, pencil:"X"} To go with all this, the first afternoon
we reached Larch Valley, which is above
Moraine Lake and opposite the ten Peaks,
in an hours climb from the camp. It is
mostly up hill in fact a pretty steady
climb! We found a nice place to camp
right near a creek with plenty of fire
wood. The higher up you are the fewer
mosquitoes (if the wind blows) and there
are always enough dead trees which found
existance at timber line? a little too hard