" .. our camp had an attractive air of al fresco.... "

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This passage from ' Coast Trails, ' finds Chase and his friend and traveling

companion, artist Carl Eytel, camping in Laguna Beach where we

realize these ' trampings ' that Chase took were working trips.

Chase with his pencil and camera and Eytel with his art supplies. 

A sight it must have been...

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" Before we move on, Eytel had quite a gallery of studies and sketches tacked up

on the trees to dry. Altogether our camp had an attractive air of al fresco Bohemianism,

and we would not have exchanged it for the charms of the Vache Enragee' and the

Boul' Miche'. Saddles, bridles, saddle-bags, guns, spurs, and cooking-tackle were

strewn all about the little spot which for a time we called home: an easel and a 

palette signified the door of the studio..."

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