83 1.00 Rand, Toxopeus, huls, Brass and one soldier left camp to ascend ridge to east. Low forest. Limestone rock. Track deep cut. 1.18 Crest. Track branches to one NE, one SE. Follow latter across a marshy hollow and up through regenerating forest. Still on tracks of man and woman followed from Wamena. 1.30 Top of ridge 346 degrees. Crossing place on Baliem Ridge 345 degrees. East bluff 185 degrees. 1.50 After crossing and ascending sterile hollow reached crest of ridge, alt. 3480 m. Low broken mossed forest dominated by um-brella trees. No Libocedrus or Dacrydium. Below (close) a marshy flat shelf with number shallow parts. East Bluff 185 degrees about 1 mile across sheltered valley of grass and forest. Soldier sent back for carriers as somewhere in the valley below our vantage point we will camp 2.00 Descended half way down slope to valley bottom by a very old track, wide, deep cut and boggy on the wetter ground. Dwarf yellow flowered rosettes of Potentilla cover boggy ground with blue grey Ericaulon # of equal size and pigmy bog grasses. Drier slopes (prevailing) covered long dry grasses as at Habbema, tussocked -*- , Gleichenia alpina, wiry Ceperania # accompan- iied by white fr. Myrcites (183) small pink Vaccinum. Drimys (brownish ), ru Gll Rhododendron, Coprosma and one or two larger Rhododendrons form shrubberies on drier ridge back. and surrounding the numerous small forest patches dotted about the slight aberration of the slope and valley bottom. Umbrella trees with its flat spreading pink inflorescence protrudes from most of these patches of Vaccinum (pink Habbema) Pittisposum, Drimys, Rapanea, and is the most conspicuous feature of the