56 this an 8th of tacos around (contributing Ramboed of a couple of years ago). Embi prepared a sheep asado for us for lunch. Stopped raining about 12:00 at noon on all the hills above, just after we had started back for Barilobo and were packing up our tacos. Tropes, no tacos, a pickup truck came through from Palaué and said the road was passable, so we turned around and drove over to Palaué. Road scraper was working at the summit; 1 to 2 feet of snow. Araucaria trees in the snow at the summit. Camped along the Rio Quellón about 3 km above Palaué, at its Hydrocor water gauge. We all put out traps (Embi, Syner, Dietz, + D), night cloudy, sprinkles. Nov. 27 Embi's line of steel traps in big rocks caught 4 Phyllotis and one Abodon longifolius; Syner captured an Abodon panthorhynus, Dietz caught a big Rattler norvegicus under a willow along the river, and I caught an Eryngium. We left at noon and drove south to Yungay de los Andes with various stops for lizards etc. Found a freshly killed red fox along the road about 30 km N of Yungay, and saw another carrying a rabbit across the road near Estancia Chacabuco. Home 8 p.m., still a few showers. Still unknown is the mystery of large foxes