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storm set in with great severity the clouds rested on the very mountain tops so very dense that they obscured the view before us making it very dangerous to follow a mountain road any longer. We turned in by the roadside and secured a sheltry place our cattle pitched our tent sheltered by a friendly stunted pine tree and got our stove into it and soon had a rousing fire one thing was in our favor there being plenty of dry pine wood laying in the shelter of the rocks. We were now comparatively comfortable I felt as good sheltered from the storm by our convass tent as if (unclear) in the most luxurious palace of my native city. We cooked some fresh venison that we got that day, made some warm biscuit and a good cup of tea and had a most comfortable supper with the storm howling madly around us on the highest range of the Rocky Mountains. After supper we built a huge fire sat closely around it and enjoyed ourselves by talking and singing for a couple of hours the time pafsed as joyous and lightharted as if we were at a splendid ball in the city after a time we rolled ourselves up in our blankets and had a most comfortable nights sleep. In the morning we found the roll? of our tent almost borne down by the prefsure of snow that had fallen during the night As soon as I got out of the tent I found the ground covered with snow to the depth of about ten inches it was a tough looking job to go out in that deep drift to look for some dry wood but we had to do it or freeze after lunch