Pearson 1987 April 15 arrived Bariloche in afternoon, my seatmate from BANDE Diego Vottelohin, cousin of Fernando, and owner of a summer house on the Villa Tacul road on the Slope Peninsula. Weather in Bariloche sunny, mild, not windy, Michael + Shirela Christie at the apartment. Summer was very hot and very dry, many forest fires, Poplars not yet yellow, rosa mosqueta fruits red. April 16. Bariloche, sunny, mild. World Reig Grassings. Left 3:30 for the Estancia Tehuel Malo; much work paring the road. Put 30 Shermons (artificial) miticats north of the road at Arroyo Chacalaveo, 5km NW Valued Huapi, at dusk. Some worst grass/panic, lot of thistle, Savoia Berberis, some marten & clay nearby. While waiting for the road crew to go home, saw hare and a pair of Cal, quail grazing on turf in a strip at the edge of berberis; competing? Slept in car at edge of the road on top of the Tehuel Malo over cliffs. April 17 Heavy frost, ice on puddles. At 11:30 PM about 6 very spirited young men from the road-worker camp a mile or two west descended on me, wanted to know more I alone, examined my tire tracks, and should something about they were looking for a certain vehicle. I never figured out what their problem was, but felt lucky that they left without stealing more than my butane stove, which had been sitting on the ground next to the water can