is so close as to make trying to perfect poor. A snowfall of 8" or so cover the ground for the last 500 ft. or so and 35 miners were out with shovels (and had been out for some time) clearing the road. They were equipped with shovels and dark glasses, all with auto-tire sandals. The road seems to go within 1000 ft. of the very top of Tutuposa, which makes it over 17,000 ft. The miners live in groups a few hundred feet below the tops (end) of the road. and behold, right outside their battery of huts they have a soccer field! As we drove past their huts I saw a large short-tailed rodent run across the snow into a stone-wall. Might have been a germin-pig domesticado. Sneaked behind these huts a half hour later and saw 3 smaller rodents. Shot 1, an Abdon Solimense, also found hutawen several fuchas (Plumbina?). There were only vertebrae that I saw (8 a.m.) bunny?), but there was up to 3 ft. of crusted snow on ground and very little vegetation. Sulfur smell in air, vapors from peak of Tutuposa and 10 or more vents in side. Ground probably too rocky and prone to support vegetation, but across the valley could see green cops. at this elevation (17,000) Left Tutuposa lunchtime, and drove thru rain + fog to camp above Torna at 9500'. Our former Antofagasta campsite at 11,500' had blossomed with a mining settlement complete with galvanized roofs etc. Set about 25 traps among cactus-caction and the shrubby herb-smoth, along all desroying terrace walls - the terms