Arctic Alaska, Canada, 1963, [diaries]
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July 14 (Sunday). Cold night, and another foggy, rainy, cold and windy morning. Finally out at 10:00, working on the north slope of the "east ridge" behind camp. Worked up near the summit, then down to about halfway, to intersect ridge running east nearly to the Pilly Fork of the Nuska River, then, some tundra before reaching river. River runs not fast, what with all the recent rain. Got a Hygrophilum on rocks in the river. Found first Dodecatheon aren in area on banks. Walked down river a half mile or so, then west to isolated ridge near