John Ordway: June 26, 1806

to the top of mountains covred with snow where we had left our
baggage,3 and packed up and proceed on we find the Snow has
Settled a little more than 2 feet Since we left this the other day.
proceeded on thro Snow deep in the evening we Came to the
Side of a mountain where the Snow is melted away and a little
1 “where we had lain the 15th 18th 19th & 20th insts.” Clark. For the loca-
tion see ante, 366, note 1.
2 “Just below the camp of June 16.” Wheeler.
3 On June 17 when the first attempt to recross the mountains had been
abandoned.
370 WISCONSIN HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS [June 27
young grass &C. so we Camped.1 Soon after we Camped an-
other Indn Came up who is going over the mount” with us.