Pearen 1978 solitary red bat hanging into tree last summer, says winter minimums of -12 deg C, inside the barn cold enough to freeze potatoes but not apples. He had another somewhat moth-eaten mink skin killed in the summer about a year ago. It was a rich slatey dark color, obviously a flush mutation, not red from like the skin he showed me last year. Then drove to Fogo Puelo. Mostly overcast, a few patches of sun. Talked to the Park Guard at Fogo Puelo about bamboo and rats/rodents. He referred me to an old codger who was mending up a pair of jeans who remembered the last rodents in 1938 following a bamboo flowering in 1937. Wondrous of dead mice on the shores of the lake, they got onto everything including wells, climbed up wires to get at things, and it was all over in 2 or 3 weeks. He said they were all the same kind of mouse. The fact that they climbed [suggests] Oryzomyines? There has been a lot of lumbering since then, and we have seen no bamboo here, although the guard says lots high up in the hills. Several of the slopes here have been burned as a result of fires started in Chile something like 10 years ago. The park headquarters had bats in the roof; they were "sulfured" last year. Walked along the edge of the lake and campgrounds. Lots of mosquitos (wild rose), blackberries 20 ft tall with red fruits, clumps of Patagonia trees and a few arrayanes. Saw a litter of Chodon olivaceus under a log in a wetl-ish meadow.