My First Summer in the Sierra

Chapter 31: Transcriber’s note:

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A season-long field journal of mountain exploration, recording daily camp life with a flock of sheep and extended excursions into high country. The narrative offers detailed natural-history observations of plants, trees, birds, insects, rivers, waterfalls, lakes, and rock formations, with attention to seasonal changes and geomorphic processes. Practical travel notes and vivid landscape sketches are interwoven with reflective passages that blend close scientific curiosity and poetic, spiritual reverence, producing a layered portrait of wilderness experience and the rhythms of alpine life.

Transcriber’s note:

In the original publication, page 190 in the list of illustrations appeared before page 154. This has been changed.

The following changes were made:
p. 156 Hoffman and Cathderal Park to Cathedral
p. 166 only curly currus wisps scarce to cirrus
p. 171 most of their acomplishments to accomplishments
p. 267 Adenostema fasciculata to Adenostoma
throughout text: chamœbatia to chamæbatia

Inconsistent hyphenation has been retained as it appears in the text for the following:

foothills and foot-hills
goldenrod and golden-rod
rootstocks and root-stocks
thunderstorm and thunder-storm
gristmill and grist-mill
lifelong and life-long
overleaning and over-leaning
snowstorm and snow-storm