Pearson - 1998 2 office and apartment here. His wife Patricia is in Bariloche. Apparently no excitement on the mouse front, and no new Hanta Virus. Then rented a Peugot 19 for a week. No luck so far with real estate people re. selling the apartment. Maximum temp during day was 64°. October 27- Bariloche. Low 48°, high 62° Morning clear, but later cloudy and a few sprinkles at Llao Llao. Contacted Heidi Schneiterman to sell apartment. At 4 p.m. drove out to Llao Llao. Lots of Scotch Broom blooming, not full bloom buit almost. Stopped to take a quick look at some possible trapping habitat in the forest, took a wrong turn, and ended up wandering trails for an hour before emerging onto the road again. Bamboo same, no signs of bloom. Lots of small dried llao llaos on the trails. Ended up putting traps on the same lines a little beyond Lago Escondido. I set 20 Shermans and 20 Museum Specials; Anita set 21 of each.. Finished just before dark. Windy, cool, sprinkles. October 28- Bariloche. Some rain during the night, and Cerro Blanco was white this morning, plus new show on Cerro Lopez etc. Overnight minimum 45°. Ground not wet; scattered clouds. Picked up the tr aps at Llao Llao at 9 a.m. About half of my MS were sprung-empty; rain? My 20 MS held 2 Oligo and 2 Abro longi. My Shermands held 4 Abro longi and 1 Abro olivaceus. Anita's 21 MS held 1 Oligo and 1 oliv; 4 were sprung-empty. Her 21 Shermans held 1 Geoxus (alive), 3 olivaceus, 1 longipilis, and 1 Oligo. We released the live Geoxus and the live olivaceus. Many of the Shermans had small slugs in them. Since Geoxus never goes for the bait, maybe it got vaught in the "Sherman when it entered chasing slugs? The total catch in 82 traps was 17 mice; =20.7% trap success for all species; 4.9% for Oligos; and 8.5% for longipilis. Then checked out the bamboo clump in the forest at the crossroads of the trails. A big limb of an Arayan tree had bent and broken a few culms of our clump. Marked all the new yearlings and counted dead shoots. No new shoots. Many Berberis darwinii bushes in full bloom. Afternoon sunny, windy. Processed mice in the afternoon. The Oligos, male and female, are breeding, unlike last year. The male Abro longis are full breeding, and the females are estrous or open vaginas or corpora lutea, unlike last year. Most lungs were not hemorrhagic, stomachs mostly full. No individuals were fat. October 29- Morning sunny, warm. Went to Parques in morning, but my permits not ready yet. Thendrove out to the Llao LlaoPeninsula and explored the