noon
A minute later the two men who had planned to ride together were going in opposite directions . Following the Fairlands road until he came to where the Galena Valley road branches off from the Clear Creek way , three miles below the Power-House at the mouth of the canyon , Brian Oakley found the tracks of an automobile -- made without doubt , during the night just past . The machine had gone up the Galena Valley road , and had returned . A little before noon , the officer stood where the automobile had stopped and turned around for the return trip . The place was well up toward the head of the valley , near the mouth of a canyon that leads upward toward Granite Peak . An hour 's careful work , and the Ranger uncovered a small store of supplies ; hidden a quarter of a mile up the canyon . There were tracks leading away up the side of the mountain .