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last night. we proceeded on up the creek a short distance then took the mountains and went up and down the mountains all day. passed and crossed an abundance of fine springs and spring runs. some of the mountains was so steep and rockey that several of the horses fell back among the rocks and was near killing themselves? some places we had to cut the road through thickets of bolsom fir some of that kind of timber in the vallies of these mountains is verry high about 100 & 60 feet and verry t?all and handsom. the most of them are covred with warts? full of the bolsom towards evening we crossed a dividing ridge went some distance on the top of it which was tollarable good and smooth going then passed down a steep hill in to the head of a cove and branch where we camped after a dissagreeable days march of only 11 miles with much fatigue and hunger as nothing has been killed this day only 2 or 3 serpents? and have no meat of any kind. set in to raining hard at dark so we lay down and slept wet hungry and cold. saw snow on the tops of some of these mountains this day-- Wednesday 4th Sept. 1805 the morning clear but verry cold our mockersons froze had the mountains covred with snow. 2 mountain sheep seen by one of the men we delayed untill about unclear oclock am then set out and ascended a mountain without any thing to eat the snow lay on the mountain so that it unclear on our mockasons the air verry cold our fingers aked with the cold we