Pearson-1992 3 adults. Anita's traps had 5 Abro. longi, 2 Auliscomys, 2 Oryzomys, 1 Reithrodon. The Reithrodon was only half-grown. Trap success = 33%. No xanthorhinus! Then drove on to the Airport and looked for pellets under the rows of conifers at right angles to the wind. Found none, but a freshly dead barn owl under one of the trees. One dead hare on the airport road. Saw a pair of ducks with fuzzy young. At 4:30 put out traps at the southeast corner of the turnoff to Pilcaniyeu (DinaHuapi). It is becoming a real estate development with roads, ditches for tubes, etc. Habitat bunchgrass, Baccharis, Rosa, Colletia, neneo, a couple of maiten trees. Not as rich as last night's lines on the airport road. I put 27 traps and Anita put 27. In the evening went to a lecture by Rodolfo Casamiquela touting his new book about the Tehuelche indians. October 31- Morning partly cloudy, 44, very windy. My trapline had nothing. Anita's had 1 Abro. longipilis and 3 Akodon xanthorhinus. One of them only 11 gm, a male, almost breeding (testes 9mm). November 1- Morning partly cloudy, 38, snow flurries, then snowed fairly hard until noon, but none stayed on the ground. Went out to Llao Llao in the morning and looked at our bamboo patches. B2 at the crossroads had a number of tall surviving shoots; they were sending out leaves, not flowers. A huge dombeyi limb had fallen right on B1, practically obliterating it. It squashed down a "clearing" about 40 ft. in diameter. The trail back to these bamboo that we used to drive is now barely passable on foot, not because new bamboo has grown up in the trail (an old arriage trail for Llao Llao Hotel?) but because canes lean over into the right-of-way, helped occasionally by falling limbs. A few Scotch broom were blooming, a few Berberis darwini, wild cherries. November 2- Bariloche. Morning 38, partly cloudy, snow flurries during the day. Went out to INTA and saw Bonino and Bellati. Bellati still working on foxes. Julietta von Thungen is in Cordoba with Bucher working for a master's degree, nothing new on her viscachas. Talked with one of the German satellite group (C.R.Lopez). They have been studying the Volcan Hudson event. There were two eruptions. The first one was smaller and the plume went to the north sort of along the Chile/Argentine border, but mostly Chile. The second plume went west to the coast. Deposits averaged 5-10 cm deep near the center of the plume. The vegetation is now full of fluorine and sulfur. One of the hazards of driving was thinking you were driving onto a bed of ash when in reality it was pumice