10.10 Mts to left which hithertoo of red sandstones not well exposed shows the latter overlaid by paler red beds & their by fawn-grey flaggy beds dipping NW to 25".

10.30 Moraine mounds in valley. Rocks in cut to left dipping NEasterly at low angle. Rolling round to this from former position. The red beds (No.8) are at the top & appear to dip across & into the Right-side of the valley near the base of the hill.
11.50 Arrive at forks camp.

Rate of Travel say 2 1/2 miles an hour.

Leave Forks Camp to ride W. along Kootanie trail 3.10 P.M. Pass running from camp S.34" W. Rate of travel nearly 3 m an hour (See part of General section through pass).

Notes on beds seen. Chiefly in the N side which offers best & simplest exposures.

Hill above camp capped by whitish weathering columnar limestone. Horizontal or dipping Nward at low angles.

At next valley west, through which small stream comes. probably a fault.

Then a great Series of red sandstones rather massive but no doubt answering to upper red Series No 8. These beds are reddest in the upper layers. Below the tint is not so marked & they are interstratified with thin beds of magnesian limestone. Concretionary & weathering to a fawn


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