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P. PEARSON
1952
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April 26 One tail in my traps. Temp: 6 a.m. 25° (Santa Ana). Drove to Santa Fe for best standards of shot +3 trees. Both gunning pigs around. Then to our camp at the gorge of the Rio Huerque.
Warm sunny day, 55° at noon, 40° at 7:30 p.m. Put out 5 gopher traps at old tree chipping. Anita was fishing at 3 p.m., Bob caught 3 11" rainbows when an Indian came up, asked if she wanted to buy a fish and produced from his pack a 14-pound 31" rainbow trout! We bought it for 6 sole = 50 cents USA.
SUNDAY
April 27 Up at 12:30 a.m. to look in caves. Temp 25° shot a tyrant in one cave, hummingbird in 2 others but no hummingbirds. Temp. at 6:15 18°, clear. Nothing in any tree traps. Took fishing movies (but no fish), then left for Boca-laca. One mine pool in the Huerque gorge just above Hda Antonio looked good for trout, so stopped for a few minutes there. Over a hundred trout over 8", mostly 10-12", were visible as we approached. Anita had a spinner to a big boy and almost landed another 1/2 footer when the spinner broke. Didn't get under way until after lunch, then marched all the way past Pomata. Camped just past Pomata on the Regisior woods. Wheat + potatoes being harvested along the way. Quinoa alive.
Temp of sleeping tyrant at 1:00 a.m. 37°, one 5°, outside 25° F.
April 28 Sea or puddle in a.m. but might not say cold. Drove early to Piedrapicunia, root much improved. Hunted trees on the causeway and took movies of a fox hunting guinea pigs. At 4:30 left for the spot west of Huerque where we hope to catch stronger lizards. Put out 12 gopher traps just before dark.