DA Gord 1986 Journal vicinity Tapanti reserve, cent. 17 May and said that he had been told he might be able to spend the night here. We said OK. We had been studying Latin American literature in Peru + was travelling around Latin America before going home. Weather still dry - only slight sprinkling toward evening except at 2000m when it was spitting on+off all afternoon 18 May Spent the better part of the daylight hours today checking my map of the Refuge against reality. Phil + I drove up to the ICE dam and then back slowly along the road checking ICE trails along the way. All of them seem to go up less than 100m to a powerline tower on the hill above the road - the trails go steeply up the slope (usually virtually straight up). The one trail that seems to be more extensive, if there we checked today, was the one that follows the Rio Dos Amigos along an everygrown road. It goes about 1km to the first good sized tributary coming into the Dos Amigos from the South - there I lost it though it may continue on to the west. Most of the trail is recent-growth on the old roadway but right at the end it reveals some good-looking habitat (good forest, wet moss-covered rock walls along the river, etc). We returned to the cabin in mid-late afternoon + soon thereafter Kiisa, who had been working until the previous old day and Steve, the Latin American literature student, returned. We had dinner and all 4 of us