Pearson - 1988 43-25 Rosendo Fraga was the only other guest registered at the hotel. Had dinner with him. He is studying the food of hummingbirds here, mostly by netting birds and taking pollen samples on their feathers with sticky tape. He didn't catch any hummers today, and there are not may around. The fuchsias are not yet blooming, their winter food (the mistletoe ...) is finished blooming aaround the Llao Llao area and is said to not be here at Blest, and the Notro is just beginning but not very abundant here at Blest. Their food at the moment seems to be the vine Campsidium, and it is not very abundant. See Campsidium species account. We measured bamboo at our original clump. Production very poor; I believe every new shoot was parasitized. Most interesting was our discovery of numerous young clumps growing near our marked clump on the grid. see species account. November 22- Puerto Blest. Morning cloudless, warm. Measured our second clump of bamboo; production very poor. Then did our census of flowering clumps between the meadow and El Abuelo: 7 on the West side of the road and 11 on the East (river) side, total 18. Visited with Park Guard Pedro Pietro and wife, then home on the 5:45 boat. There is more alerces gtrrowing along the boat route than I had remembered. November 24- Lunch with Fraga. He still can't say how many, if any, of the Campsidium blossoms up in the trees are nibbled. He says the hummers do use Ourizia. November 25- To Cerro Bayo. The road to Villa Angostura is still unpaved except for about the first 5 km; but some progress. Drove up to the bottom of the ski lifts at Cerro Bayo on a fairly good cinder road, then zig-zagged about half way up the ski lift on a cinder road. The ski run was cut of virgin forest, maybe 100m wide, straight up and down the hill, which is cinders covered with long green grass. Up near the top it becomes rocky with alpine and ericaceous plants; a couple of dwarfed lengas at the ridge line, where it was cold and windy. At the bottom of the ski run the forest is coihue. Where we camped, which I estimate to be 1300 m, there was a mixture of big coihue and big lenga; most of the big ones were coihues and the younger ones were lengas. The understory was bamboo, current, Drimys, and 3 or more species of Berberis. A few bamboos were blooming. Higher up, the forest was lenga, but there was no clear zone of lenga achaparrada. The bamboo stopped about 100 to 150 m altitude above our campsite. The huge trunks that had been cut to make the run had been pushed to the edge of the run and seemed to be perfect habitat for Akodon longipilis and Chelemys. Much of the bamboo had been heavily grazed, and there were cows grazing on the ski run. In some places I noticed that short bamboo only a foot or two tall was ungrazed, suggesting that much of the grazing is in winter. I was surprised to find sympatric skiing and coihue. How come if there is enough snow for skiing it doesn't break the limbs of the non-deciduous coihue? We hiked up to the top of the lifts (one of the two is new and not