14 the main body yet extends to the fountain & flows with steady motion like a water fall No inexper[t] observer could point out the slightest difference in texture color or motion or form between a large avalanches [continuing] a minute or two & a waterfall of same breadth & length. There is something inexpressibly noble in the first bounding [free] of a large field of snow from Clds [Clouds] Rest. One day saw three start from [five] yds [beneath] me These have a course of about a mile into the Tenaya Can [Cañon] There are slopes & hollows back of Clds R [Clouds Rest] wh [which] favor the collection of deep snows wh [which] are yet so inclined that when the bottom of the mass becomes wet by the thaws of spring portions give way & glide w...