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Sat. June 27th.
The flight made today which I referred to in
my last letter was very interesting. The clouds
were low and we flew just against the
celling towards the foothills. Palmer small
hills with very high south faces project from
certain blucher towards the Black River. As we
flew on up the winding Palmer towards the hills the
foothills of Sare and Blucher filled the whole northern
vision. We edged over to the east a trifle and roundly
a spur of Sare made out the narrow, slit-like
gorge of the Palmer ahead of us. It looked somewhat
like this: cloud.
We flew in along
the top of the gorge towards the sun-lit-ed
interior valley passing on our right the clearing
on the top of Blucher formerly occupied by willis.
The arable printed int Rasik was passed on my
left, and the N - shaped int Mabion
ahead and to the left. The clearing lay on the
N or NE side of Mabion.
The whole interior valley is indescribably
steep and rough, and all forested. Two parachutes
and three rice loads were set down in the
clearing. Could see willis and a few boys standing
there but not Keely who was probably exploring
trail.
Coming out was easy. The great Sare scar (a
landslide on the limestone face) showed plainly left
right, and we could look out under the clouds
to see the plains. All the way out we flew
above the gorge which was snow brightly