Lillian Gest

are hounds. Hares return on old trail + we lose track of them. Very dusty. Fine ride on Patches who does {underline: 'not'} run away with me. Cocoa. Sky wonderful with clouds, then stars lay before fire late after others go to bed. Tues 14 Rainy in am. Pack + leave to cross Sask. R. Ride Roxy as Busty is off. [S..o.ts?] + gets excited across flats. Send food + duffle over + ourselves in [bucket?]. Ten horses start to swim across + to our horror two drown.

Bert says they were {strikethrough: 'c"} caught in their halters but Jim says they were not. Walk down stream w. Marg + Barbara. + find the two horses Major + Chub on a sand bar. Jim + Shorty take off the saddles [dash] other horses are taken eight miles down stream to lower ford. Get back in three hours [dash] all safe. at 9 pm Marg + I swam before supper in glacier

stream with silt bottom Busty + Caty go to bed with curse. Caty sick at tummy. Madelaine gets water upstream for crowd. All write up our diaries together before fire. Dreamed of the drown{strikeout: 'd'}ed horses. Caty sick in night + I walked several times. Rubbed Elaine + Louise with [Sloans?]. Wed 15 Left late. Rode down Sask River to Cataract Flats. Rode Boscoe Barbara got stitch in side + I was behind with her part of the time [dash] waited

on hill above River for Busty + Caty who were behind being cursed. Lunch at White Goat (otherwise Cataract or Cline R.) where we camped last year. No Indians there. Ate lunch + watched pack train cross Cline R. then crossed ourselves. Caroline taking pictures There along trail we took last year [dash] Had [oranges?] where we crossed creek in Canyon below Silver forest + where we had

wild strawberries. Camped by White Goat. All went swimming in [White?] goat where little stream came in. Wearing the mocassins I bought for three dollars from Gussie Beaver but they smell terribly Very hot + dusty all day. Venison for dinner was delicious. Did stunts with pole after dinner + Madelaine stood on her head. Bed at 11 sleeping out for first time under pine tree. Slept well. Woke early + put head of bed over me +

the next thing I heard was "hot water" [dash] Thurs 16. Hot cakes for breakfast (called before 7) Riding Brownie who I find I dont like. Rough + stumbles + has a mouth of cast iron. a pack horse's soul + all [ seems?] donkey or mule but the first 10 inches of her tail. Lunched on Corral Creek where there was little shade. Lay under the bushes. Hot + dusty. Corral Creek is where we had lunch

last year the day we came down the White Goat Trail very faint + wriggley going up a hill, only to come down. Ride after Jim going up hill to above timber line. Spring of wawa there + we rest ten minutes till the pack is in sight. Jim is blazing the trail. Go down hill + cross creek to east side to camp. Early summer. Wash below camp. Lost my watch-wheel pin, also lens in camera finder. Went back after supper + found lens. Pin gone

cocoa + biscuits at 9 Talk with Marguerite (..ickle ...ty?) by fire about jobs + Girl Scouts. Bed. everyone sleeping out (altho?) Bill. Tent is up. Fri 17. Eating tent is not up + we are eating outside which is very nice when the sun is [o?]ut too hot [dash] Trail goes up Corral Creek. crossing several [times?] Took a picture looking up stream with horses on trail to left. Riding Tex

whom I like very much. His slow but easy gait + the most sure footed I've ever had out here If I have a stick in my hand he goes along very well. Lunch on creek where vally divides [dash] Stay there two hours while Jim + Frank hunt the trail. Go up valley to left. Trail vague + disappears at times Finally come up to pass mountains all around and animal trails all around on the shale

Coyote to right watches us some time. Go round to right + camp on hill cook tent at bottom + find we are not on the right trail. Other valley of Corral creek ap{hyphen} parently comes in here + up to the Pass. Jim searches for trail in evening. Starts to rain after supper. Marg. Louise, Busty, Caty + I in [...?] [dash] tent. We call it the tenement. Laugh + talk till 9:30. Then