Pearson - 1996 14 Instead, we talked to middle-aged Sr. Goye who remembers various bits of bamboo lore from the 1930s and from his father. He says that the Lago Lolog bloom is just scattered clumps in bloom. Then Michael Christie came by to continue the Hanta discussion. He may have been responsible for getting Hjelle to come here. He says that the Sanatorio San Carlos is paying the bill. It is the clinic where several of the Hanta victims seem to have contracted the disease. Nobody in Bariloche will go there anymore. 22 November - Partly cloudy, windy. Drove down to Rincon Grande to see Eileen et al. Quite windy. They were lying out in the mallin trying to catch and radio tag the female of a pair of tucos. The burned areas are looking greener, the dead bunchgrass clumps are sending out new culms around their periphery, and there are innumerable islands of smartweed a couple of meters across. The Ralph family arrived. 23 November - Went out to the Llao Llao Hotel with Michael Christie to talk wit Drs. Hjelle and Simpson. Michael failed to convince them that there could be person-to- person contagion by the Hanta virus. I gave them a summary of life history notes on Oligoryzomys. I also gave copies to the 4th Santiary District. Then met the Ralphs by chance in the bamboo forest while we were showing Hjelle the sights. 24 November - To Tronador with the Ralphs. Silvana, the park guard at Pampa Linda, said that camping was not allowed at Rio Castano Overo and that the road was closed. We camped along the river at Pampa Linda in a nice, approved campsite. Then we drove up to the Ventisquero Negro, which is much reduced from 1993 when we were here with Peg Smith. Then went up to the end of the road at the cirque, then back to camp where I set 15 Shermans, about 6 of them baited with meat, the rest oatmeal. Many set at the base of hollow ni res hoping to catch Dromiciops, the others around Berberis islands. Day sunny and clear. 25 November - Nothing in traps. Hiked back to the Rio Castano Overo, then up to our old study site across the river and up the hill. One clump of bamboo was flowering on the lower edge of our study site, the