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Cade
1956
General Account
12 june
of the latter have been broken or bent over,
perhaps by movement of snow, as the line is on
a rounded ridge that probably gets a lot of wind.
It is completely free of snow and is the clearest
of the 7 transects. I marked some of the 100 ft
stakes with red rope and took a photo from
the middle looking toward the beginning
point.
While we turning, just before got to the air
strip, something happened to the broke on the
left track of the vessel, and I had to drive it
in the west of the way with no control over the
left side. Will try to fix it in the morning.
Got back to hut at 1900, ate dinner, prepared
specimens and wrote up notes in the evening.
Caught two lemmings by hand in the area
near T-5.
13 june
Retired at 0100 and got up at 0900. Fixed
breakfast and then went out on a trip to Unist Mt.
Could not get vessel across Beeswax Cr, no passed at foot
of hill and walked the rest of the way. Returning to
camp about 1830, I crossed a patch of snow I had
used earlier to by-pass a ditch in the road, and the
vessel fell through into a small drainage. It got wedged
in between snow banks forward and back and would
not budge. It was about a mile out of camp, so I shifted
in for help. Had to walk bare-footed and pant less
across Sea Bee Cr. Cold experience. Ate dinner with