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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. A blurry photograph of H. H. West and company's campsite near Bullfrog Lake at the base of a mountainside. A couple of men mill about the site in the near distance at center. Some gear appears to be strewn across the ground around them. Then men and their gear blend into the landscape. A tree with an upward-arcing limb juts out into the foreground at right. Behind it stands a large boulder. Other trees and boulders dot the ground at the base of the mountainside that rises behind the campsite. Text from negative sleeve: 553. Gardner Creek trip, about 1919. We get to Bullfrog lake and go into camp. It starts to rain. 2 negatives xxx [crossed out] making camp. Two negatives of my green tent set up on the edge of Bullfrog lake. It commenced to sleet and ice sagged the tent and finally tore it badly where it wasin[sic] the tree. It was cold. Had hard time start a fire, account everything wet. Finally got some supper and glad to get inside the tent out of the cold and rain. Next day was fine. Charlie Stavnow fishing Bullfrog lake. 5 negatives
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1998_0553_002 ark:/21198/zz002hqsnn
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Kings Canyon National Park (Calif.) Camping--California--Independence Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)
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