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9000 feet, I should say. Includes blue gentians so common at Silver Lake , yarrow, bright light red elder berries, dwarf willows etc. Hines says altitude is 8,500. Met a Mr. Buckingham and father, of Tennessee, who comes here often. I collected a few Oreohelix cooperi in aspens back of our tent, all dead- one so recently dead as to smell bad and containing a lot of dead young shells. Got accommodation for the nigh in a tent house and meals at Hines' boarding-house. Saw a few red sandstone fragments in the debris on the north side of the river. The lava above here at Marvine Lakes, is distinctly stratified, with variously colored strata in the walls, red predominating.
