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about six miles of this kind of scenery - the valley gradually becoming narrower. The Mountains because still more perpendicular. The sky above gradually diminishes in Extent. The unclear - sun? is shut and only touching the highest parts of the mountain cliffs. The air being chilly - the pools of water became more frequent & are deep & still as death. Gradually the Mountain has closed and looking directly upward you see the blue sky looking like a ship of unclear lifted blue ribbons. Suddenly we are brought to a halt & is thought that we can go no Farther for in front of us is 20 feet of abrupt smooth rock. We hunt about and get a small fallen pine tree - and by placing it against the rock up we climb one after the other & unclear a short distance & then hold.