and reached the Kokomo roadhouse.
It was a very bad trail - I waded water
to my Knees half the day - for miles I
was in the water - running on top of the
ice -wet all day - walked 18 miles.
We are told that the trail is now good with
the exception of one hole - all the way
to Cleary Creek. Barnette & I will
help the teams through that in the morning
& will then go to Fairbanks with his dog
team. Good many teams traveling
on the river - but roads very bad.
-12th-
Left Kokomo roadhouse early - we helped
the horses across the last bad waterhole in
the river & then Barnette & I took the
dogteam & struck out for Fairbanks.
We spent an hour on Cleary Creek & I was
very much surprised & pleased at the
