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of which much sign wherever shelter rocks near the
smelly sage. Done again in evening.
Jan 28 Temp. at 6 33°, time fine. Morning cloudy, about ½
hour of sun at noon, then fog closed in again (as yesterday
and day before. My traps live good: Pinnumps, 4 absidon
ardensis, and 11 Phyllotaxis . Ready to leave again just
as fog blown in.
Indication to the Phyllotaxis put up; threw out godwulf 33 and
1 non-pres. 4.
Drove up to 15,200'; then stopped because it was too foggy
to see the scenery. Skinned for fortune, under fog, rain, and
snow, then put out >20 traps midst yareta, tela, small cactus,
pinnumps sage, and crinice plants. Evening drizzly-snowy.
Jan 29 Still snowing lightly at dawn but soon stopped. About 1" of
snow on bus + ground (snow didn't stay on hard-packed ground
such as our tire tracks in gravel, made before the snow); still foggy.
Temp 34° at 6:00 a.m. Heard Tiranotia, saw marmots.
Nothing in my traps, but in Curtis's 45 were 3 Phyllotaxis derminis
and 1 absidon ardensis. Saw droppings of Pinnumps. Vegetation
yareta, quadrangularis, cushion cactus with crimson flowers, Pinnumps
sage. Temp was 34° at 6:00, cloudy, started snowing again at
10:00 with temp. still under 40°. At 4:30, 39°; at 6:30, 34° (last
two temps taken at saw camp east of divide)
Despite poor visibility drove up to the divide (15,400'), then a little
beyond. Western approach is rather barren gravel + rocks, but just
over the divide Festuca and tela begin, and Clemmys.
Camped at 15,300' among Festuca + tela — the deep-leaved
kind in the valley and the compressed (quadrangularis) on the