Pearson - 1994 3 on the balcony since we arrived has been 44-78. Almost all day overcast, about 55, a few sprinkles. Went out to the Pampa Quemada in the afternoon and photoed the surviving vegetation. See bamboo species account. To Jorge Vallerini and Patricia Fierro for dinner. Mary Taylor and the Cleveland Museum group have cancelled their Patagonian/Chilean tour. November 1-Visited the bamboo clumps up on Cerro Otto. No snow anywhere, lenga leaves are out, no "pavement' of wet lenga leaves as in other years. Lots of tuco sign but saw only one earth core, so there probably wasnt much snow. Still lots of lenga branches lying around, broken off last year by a late wet snow. No signs of grazing. Met a young Frenchman near where we park our car; Pascual, who is studying "growth" of the the three species of Nothofagus and other plants. Weather sunny and balmy until mid-afternoon, then it clouded up. Met young Bechis, the photographer, in the post office; he is doing a book on Argentina. November 2- Bariloche. Overcast in morning, then sunny and warm. Went up to Ecotono and saw Joanna and Werner Flueck. They are helping INTA with a study of diet of red deer, not doing much with huemuls. Then talked with Barbara Rapoport. Eddy busy giving the "invasions" course. Gabriel Rapoport came in. He reported finding a rat carcass frozen in a glacier, which he brought in to Ecotono. Walking back home we saw Adrian Monjeau, who will be going to the mammsl Society meetings in Cordoba. To a Preloran documentary in the evening, on the History of Patagonia; the seventh of his series on Patagonia. Adam Hajduk was there. November 3- Bariloche. Morning overcast, temp 44, drizzly. Went out to Pampa Quemada and searched for an unburned clump of bamboo, which we then chopped off to see whether the regrowth imitates the regrowth of the burned clumps. Fluecks came for dinner. Werner is still puttering with red deer, hoping to get a grant from Germany to study huemuls. Conrad Bailey has built a casco for the Italians who bought the upper portion of Estancia Fortin Chacabuco for deer shooting. The Peace Corp has closed up in Argentina.