going to be closed tomorrow. Run into heavy snowfall almost as soon as I got up into the ichn country and some snow from there all the way across the high country until just before I stopped down in the tela valley at about km 60, about 1 1/2 due out from Oruro. There was about 3 miles of snow on the road near the Cocharamba end and coming down hard like on the Oruro end. 2 mice crossed the road, could have been large Rh. suffimixis. Because of the snow and the harrowing drive I was impressed at how much high country there was between Oruro-Teba. Sept. 17 Off again at 6 a.m., clear, and arrived Oruros 8:45 after slowant and refueling. All morning getting a tube for my other spare, then off for Uyuni. Some of the road goes across a bay of Poofro, 6 miles above water level, with flamingo, shore birds, curlews, slhezie, ducks, + gulls. Other parts of the Poofor pumpas are sand dunes, other pure Fiestera ortholagids also Bacchus and ichn and mixture of Barbos-ichn-Fiesta. Some cultivation, even in Fiesta. Couldn't resist a strong hillrid with Barbos+ichn and no house at 40 mile 5 Oruro, so stopped at 3 p.m. Many stone walls, a few Cocharaba cothas. Parakeets here. Tola 1-2 feet [illegible] Forgot to mention also wide pumpas with dwarf fork vegetation like at Ichn-pachuni. Sept. 18 The trip line that was going to be so tedious gone! Mamora, 2 Rh. dominii, and 5 Abodan. Huffy! Morning clear, calm front on windshield. A few miles south of camp in tela-ichn shot 2 Mithogwata, one laying female. Country about same to