Aug 16. Whole party left Camp No. 1 at 7.45 & travelled W. by Kootanie trail. Passed the same trail as yesterday & through the same magnificent scenery. Have the axemen ahead however cutting impeding logs & making the passage much better. Nevertheless hard work driving & leading the pack animals with their cumbrous loads over & through the woods & windfall. All sorts of trouble with the packs lashings constantly coming undone, packs catching on logs & tearing off. Much heavy swearing indulged in among the men. Many berries of various kinds. Berry of the white flowering, & common raspberries. Blue berries, Amelanchier berries.

Arrived at "fork" camp at 2 P.M. & after lunch went on foot to explore the old Boundary trail. After following it some time found that the main track & one used by the indians turned off to the left up the shoulder of the hill & did not keep the proper direction. Then discovered the Boundary trail by the old cut logs & blazes. No one had apparently used it in the last thirteen years & the aspect of the woods had no doubt in that time much changed. Areas then covered with windfall through which had been much heavy chopping then now coming up in sturdy young growth. Much of the old windfall had been burned away. Where however heavy standing timber had been 13 years ago now heavy recent windfall all across the track & very difficult