Pearson-1990 11 Temperature about 40. My traps untouched. Anita caught 2 Eligmodontia, 2 pale Abrothrix (one of them juvenile), and 1 young Akodon xanthorhinus. This locality is about 30 km NNW Pilcaniyeu. About 10:30 decided to continue on north to Paso Flores. The road degenerates in places to barely detectable tracks across mallines and rocky grades, but passable because of the dry weather. Sheep and occasionally goats, numerous juncus mallines, occasional small ranch houses. 23 km beyond our campsite, we met a pickup truck coming the other way; it had gone past our camp earlier in the morning. It contained one (or two?) of the 7 Cueto Brothers, three of whom (Alfredo, Emiliano, and "Otro") own ranches here. Alfredo told us that there was nothing but trobble ahead and that we had better return past his ranch and continue west to reach Paso Flores or Alicura. Lunch at an idyllic spot with a big grove of Lombardy poplars, willows, cottonwoods, elderberry, knee-high green grass, sheep in a big mallin, rocky cliffs...and no habitation. Emerged in late afternoon at the Alicura Dam. Crossed the dam, then back to Bariloche. VERY windy en route, then light rain in the evening in Bariloche. Peter and Sandy investigated various caves and crevices in this transect through the Pichi Leufu drainage, but encountered nothing like amber. Viscacha droppings in various places. At the lunch oasis I found a big bush of the big Ephedra/Diostea with 5-petalled, bent-tubular, corolla, one of the petals with a notch in it. There also was rosa mosqueta there, so possibly the ?Diostea? was introduced. December 2- Bariloche. Clear by morning, temperature low 40s. Gwenn Brewer and Josh and his mother came by. Then went to Rapaport's for lunch with the Flueks. Then up to the University. December 3- Weather clear, very windy. One of the Wesleys is said to have weather records for many years out toward the Llao Llao Peninsula. Peter and Sandy climbed up above Refugio Neumeyer, maybe onto Cerro Blanco, and in some grassy places among patches of lenga achaparrada they fouond and brought back fairly large Euneomys droppings. December 4- To Puerto Blest on the early international boat. The big marked clump by the big tree, east of the road, was blooming! Weather drizzly. Pitched our tent under the picnic/camping shelter. The Park Guard is Javier, same as last year. Peter and I walked the Bl Abuelo route and counted 4 blooming bamboo plants, 2 on each side of the road. Dec. 5- Went to Lago Frias on the bus, up the hill to the beginning of the trail to Puerto Blest, then back that trail for maybe 0.5km where we encountered the other species of bamboo that Parkgurard Prieto had told us about. Weather clear. Heard barn owl at night, a few parrots, 2 condors at Lago Frias, 1 at Blest. Dec. 6-Back to Puerto Panuelo on the early boat because it was beginning to rain again. Abel Basti is Parkguard at the Port. He took us home for yerba