Pearson-1992 12 the road. Home 4 p.m. November 18- Bariloche. Mostly sunny, mild. Allen and Sandy Enders came to town. Lorenzo Sympson was meeting two fishermen at the airport. He says that the trout fishing is not great, too much water. November 19- Bariloche. Sunny, mild. With Flia. Enders to top of Cerro Otto, (no snow, amancay lilies coming up, condors, earth cores of Chelemys among amancay) then to Llao Llao (lots of Scotch broom in bloom, rosa mosqueta not yet blooming). November 20.- Bariloche. Clear and mild. After sunrise and before sunset the sky is frequently brassy; dust from Volcan Hudson? November 21- Bariloche. Temp. 51. Visit from Bettinellis and then Fluecks. They had been to a huemul conference at Parque Alerces, but didn't see any huemuls. They reported that the high country of Estancia Fortin Chacabuco has been sold. November 22- Bariloche- Scattered clouds. 52. Drove up to Catedral by the back road from Lago Gutierrez. Saw no blooming bamboo and no young plants near where I found seeds years ago. The gully where I had photographed bamboo years ago is now obscured by young coihue that have grown up along the road. Saw a leaf-cutter ant cnest halfway up this road. There are numerous tuco-tuco diggings in acaena meadows east of the Catedral ski complex. Large areas of dense bamboo-scrub nire. November 23- Bariloche. Clear, temp. 50. Went to Puerto Blest tp check up on the bamboo. Censused along the road between the hotel and El Abuelo; 3 blooming plants on the river side of the road (east) and 2 on the west side. The two big, bloomed clumps in the meadow are gone, bulldosed away as part of the new "Camping" facility. Another big clump is blooming, however, about the middle of the river side of the meadow. It had no new shoots (other plants nearby had new shoots), and yearling culms had fresh blooms but no leaves. The dead clump at the far end of the meadow that we photographed 2 years ago when Peter and Sandy were here had no signs of seedlings under it. There was another, dead-er-looking clump about 25 feet away, however. From the fact that all the branchlets were gone, it seems to have been dead about 5 years or more. it had 3 "seedling" clumps under it or close to it. One of them had 9 culms of graded size up to pencil diameter (this larger one was dead), the next-largest about 6 ft. tall. Another of these seedling clumps had 4 culms graded up to a diameter smaller than a pencil, 3 ft. tall. This largest one was dead. A third clump had 6 culms up to 2 or 3 mm diam., 3 ft. tall. >3 yrs old by leaf-count on the next-largest culm. The dead