119 Gill, Douglas E. 1964 Larry was discouraged. We worked down the slope into the next canyon and were confronted with a high abrupt cliff. Larry wanted to work around the base of it around the other side so I agreed to meet him on top after working this side. It was an ideal cliff and I found several recent good looking burrows. My enthusiasm increased as I found a fairly good carvass of a dark rump outside one burrow. I worked eagerly up the base of the ridge to the top. Instead of working the bridge "separating" ridge I decided to contact and wait for Larry. I called and found that he was way below, probably just working around the point. He called back that it was the wrong canyon and something else I didn't catch. I waited for him to come up but after about 15 minutes I still saw no sign: no noise or light. I called and got no answer. After continually calling for another 1/2 hour I still got no response. I was sure he had to be in one of the two sides of this ridge on top of which I was and he must be able to hear me. I was quite worried that I still got no response so after much deciding, decided to go back to camp, just in case he had headed back. I was frantically moving quickly along the slope, and was startled twice by exploding chukars. Oh while I was on top a couple of Dark-rumps kept flying by and calling, so I suspected we were in a good spot. I called again and got an answer below - Larry and yelled before that he was going back to camp and that is what I hadn't heard. I was relieved and laughed somewhat at my unnecessary worry. But it would be so easy to get lost or hurt on these slopes. We met and got back to our out-cropping. Since we were coming back tomorrow Larry decided to leave his pack here, but I thought it best to take mine. He was tired - discouraged that our