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Show RESEARCH METHODS The trail from Leroux Creek to the mouth of Hubbard Creek is easily observable by traveling along Colorado Highways 92 and 135. A jeep trail is open up Hubbard Creek to about one-half mi Ie above the campsite of San Ramon Nonnato. September On the north 1st of September we set out headed from San Ramon, and after going three leagues through sma I I narrow valleys of abun pastures and thick clumps of scrub oak, we came upon eighty Yutas, all on good horses and most of them from the encampment to which we were golng e kept on going with only the Laguna, descended a very steep incline, came into a very pleasant narrow val ley In which there was a sma I I river and al I along its bank a spreading grove of spruces very tal I and straight, and among them certain poplars which seem to ape the erectness and height of the pines. Through this narrow val ley we traveled eastward for a league and reached the encamp ment, which had numerous people and must have consisted of thirty tents. We stopped a mi Ie down from it and by the edge of the river mentioned, naming the site San Antonio Martir. Today four Leagues, 199 [in al IJ. dant ••• RESEARCH AND INTERPRETATION Floyd A. O'Neil and. Gregory C. Thompson The group left San Ramon Nonnato and ascended Hubbard Creek into Hubbard Park. It is probable that the eighty Utes the party encountered were near the present site of the hunting lodge in the north extremity of the park. From that point they descended the steep hil I due north ward to Cow Creek. (Cow Creek was probaby much larger in those days because Overland Reservoir did not impound' its waters.) They then turned eastward along Cow Creek for nearly two miles to a natural camp site where Fawn Creek enters 'Cow Creek at the B,600-foot elevation. Travel for the day is nine and one-half mi was es, leaques. Our estimation of 2.4 mi les per league. four or four leaques RESEARCH METHODS It is impossible to ascend from San Ramon Nonnato -76- up Hubbard Creek |
