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- Smoke House at Hylands Ranch

After supper we went looking tor an
old "Eaale Rock" aircraft that had crash
landed in one of the fields in 1934,
Eventually we did find bits and pieces of
it but found out later that a helicopter
pilot had taken most of it out and plans
on reconstructing it. \lent to bed that
night tired, but feelina aood.

By now we were all becomina accustomed
to our duties, the packina was easier and
the packs looked better every day. After
breakfast the boys, Tracy and Tony usually
rounded up the horses while Bill and |
qot the panniers packed. The riding horses
were saddled first and then the packhorses
packed, In the evenina when we stopped
Tracy and | would aet the camp fire aoina
and a pot of coffee on while the men un-
packed and unsaddled horses. Tracy would
help hobble the horses while | aot supper
going.

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— Saturday, July 22nd - left Hyland's
Ranch at 11 am, weather was cloudy with
a cliaght wind, but warm. Had a aood
trip until we arrived at Kennicott Lake.
There Blackjack's packs slipped riaht
under her belly but fortunately she was
quite calm about it all which is more.
than | can say for us. After Blackjack
was repacked, Bill noticed that Paleface's
pack was also starting to slip so tried
to repack it himself. Somehow the horse
spooked and kicked Bill in the lea,
sending him flying in the bush and put-
tina quite a larae hole in the pannier.
Bill had a very bad scrape from his
thigh down past his knee and had a-hard
time for the next few days aqettina in
and out of the saddle and beina lead
rider, he had to do this quite often to
clear the trail. ‘le never repacked
Paleface that day and used the spare
horse instead,

The trail got very rouqh at Hatchou
Lake where beavers had dammed the lake
and we had to ao above the oriainal trail
Near the end of the lake we went throuqh
an area much like a haunted forest, the
trees were all dead and the trail very
narrow. Really eerie. Further on we
hit a cat road and followed it all the
way to Sheslay. In some spots here it
was very hard qoina for the horses as
the road was extremely rocky.

Vie arrived at Sheslay at 9 pm and
were greeted by the only occupants,
Henry Vance, his wife Janet and their
four small children. We found out the
next day that Mrs. Vance and the children
had flown over us on the trail and the

-kids had been watching for our arrival

every day.

Sunday, July 23rd - we took the day
off to do our laundry and just relax. It
was raining in the morning so we all
stayed in bed till noon. Shortly after
we aot up Henry Vance stopped in and had
coffee with us. It cleared un in the
afternoon so everyone took their turn at
the creek with their dirty laundry and
the scrub board. Nike made a clothes
horse out of poles to dry his socks and
undies. The rest of the day was spent
aoina through old cabins and the old
telearaph station. When the line was beina
put through, Sheslay was one of the lara-

.er stations and had a population of app-

roximately 900,