Pearson - 1994 1 Journal - 1994 October 27- Arrived Buenos Aires about 8 a.m. and at the airport turned over the loan material (skulls of Caluromys and Auliscomys to Ulyses Pardinias. Arrived Bariloche about 4 pm. Our pilot circled over the Lake;there seemed to be lots of snow. Steppe still brown, some green in the better mallines; saw no sheep. Weather clear, sunny, balmy. Narcissus blooming in town, apple and cherry tees, some tulips. October 28- Sunny, warm in Bariloche. Wrestled with getting the car started: battery down and bad contact somewhere, plus overcharging. Saw Clara Bosch and Cacho Carranza. All agree that it was a rainy winter but that there was not enough snow for the ski season. Most of the snow came too late, and there really wasn't very much. La Rivierre is once again head of Parques, and Arturo Tarak is running things; also one of the Canevaris. Maurice Rumboll has been hired as some sort of special agent, and may be living in Buenos Aires instead of in Cordoba. Carlos Romero former parkgard, is now a Parguard in Canada. October 29- All morning buying new battery, locating bad circuit near the battery terminal, and correcting an overcharging problem. Met David Pruden at the car electricista's. He is discouraged with the economy and the tourist industry. No snow for the skiers, who have money, and too many student tourists who scare away the other tourists and dont spend any money. Hilda Rumboll has died. He and everybody else knows about the dead quila bamboo on the road to Chile, but no news of any blooming cana coligue. In the afternoon went out to Llao Llao Peninsula. Our bamboo clump that was squashed by the fallen limb is thriving among the ruins. The clump at the crossroads of the trails has a lot of dead skinny canes, some or many of them probably already dead when we first marked the clump. Last year's shoot production was poor, like the year before. Nine surviving yearlings, 30 dead shoots, almost all of them clearly killed by insects. Marked with orange tape 4 dead shoots in an adjacent clump to see if they will be recognizable and countable next year. Saw no new shoots anywhere. Chuaos and whet-whets, but not