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Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: Broke-off Mt.
Date: July 27
Page Number: 2531

came to the distended gullet, I could see the "seeds"
showing thru the transparent walls! But the sole
contents proved to be smooth bright green caterpillars, 13
of them, very uniform in size, 12 to 17 mm. long, tho
decidedly stretchable.

Up to summit of Broke-off Mt. and back, with family.
Left camp at 7 a.m., in Ford, up "Lassen road" to
where "short trail" to Broke-off turns off to left (not
more than 1/2 miles below "Soupan springs." From there to
the top by trail in about 4 miles, 7000 to 9500 ft. alt.
two life-zones are traversed - Canadian, with red fir
as chief indicated, and Hudsonian, with alpine hemlock
as indicator. But there is much blending between
these two, and no "line" can be drawn to separate
them. The middle of the belt of mergence on the
south-east side of Broke-off I should say
averaged about 8000 ft. There is no true timberline on
this mountain, altho [sic] the upper 400 non-precipitous feet
of the top is mostly bare. Yet scrubby hemlocks go up in
places to within a few yards of the brightest parts of
the short crest.

Mr. John W. Gransbury is the present Forest Lookout on
the top, which is provided with a very comfortable
glass-sided lookout house - rather airy in "feeling",
as it is on the brink of the crumbling ^^{east and} northeast
declivity, from which rocks often fall. As I
waved the top, at 12:30, two Duck Hawks passed
close over me and directly over the house.