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Show 1904. If one stands on the overlook and looks out to the west-northwest is now an island, one is looking across a buried val ley to a In this ridge that separated it from the Strawberry River Val ley beyond. first val ley was Trout Creek, fed by its tributaries Cow Creek and Coal Creek ad numerous springs. From approximately this overlook, the Domlnguez Escalante party descended to the stream where Joaquin caught the trout. Then, as is narrated, they crossed the stream, c limbed a hi I I, and "carne onto the valley floor." This could only mean they crossed the now nearly buried ridge and entered into the main Strawberry Val ley beyond, which they could have seen as they approached the first valley of Trout Creek. to what At this point they turned south-southwest by compass, (translated: southwest), crossed the Strawberry River without mentioning it (perhaps because they had already noted its val ley), and farther on headed westerly up a dry gully lying between the basins of Mud Creek and Bryant's Fork. Two mi les up they crossed the "small stream of very cold water" (Bryant's Fork near where the road crosses it) and then ascended into the heavi Iy wooded hi I Is to a low point on the ridge and the head of Sixth Water Creek. Turning southeast along Strawberry Ridge a half-mi Ie, they then worked their way down a ridge and val ley to what we can only conjecture was a campsite some two miles west of the summit on Sixth Water Creek. RESEARCH METHODS Obvious.ly, Strawberry across trail by old maps, and this It the Chavez tr9nslation. Strawberry Val reservoir have done. pertains only"attempt to plot the Something, however, is missing in we can to the critical climbed out of Trout Creek distance after the ed we party ley proper. We point of direction and over the hi I I and enter quote: Chavez then, after going one league south-southwest through a narrow val ley with a lot of sagebrush and bad surface, and at the end of three-quarters of a league, we crossed a smal I stream of very cold water. We continued west another quarter leapue ••• ••. Bolton gives us this description: floor of the valley and, having league to the south-southwest, we swung to the west through a ravine with much chamiso and bad terrain, and, having gone three-fourths of a league, we crossed a ••• traveled sma I I we entered the a stream of very cold water. Auerbach is essentially the We continued west .... same: plain of the valley, and after league south-southwest we changed to a westerly course along a ravine with much chamiso and where going was difficult. Three-quarters of a league farther on we ••• we entered the a crossed a little river of very cold water - 113- •..• |
