Alaska Catalogue and Journal, v4402
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Cade 156 General Account 31 July - Spent the day in camp washing clothes, cleaning jittertset, reading, and watching the howlts. 1 August - Went out with the weasel across the viser again, trying to find a helicopter that went down on this island last year. No luck. 2 August - Spent morning writing up notes, getting traps ready for use on second series of Uinta transects and taking movies of the hawks flying at break. In the evening set out troops on T4 and T6. 3 August - Ran trap lines in the morning and spent afternoon. Skinning. Ran traps again in the evening. 4 August - Ran traps in the early morning and skinned, in the afternoon, met Col. Walter G. Wood and a party coming back from glacier scouting at Shadler Lake. Ran traps again in the evening. 5 August - Ran traps in morning and skinned all afternoon. Took up traps on T4 and T6 in the evening. 6 August - Dr. Wiggies and Dr. Montgomery (bumble bees) Come in at 0300. Saw Wiggies at 0800. He is waiting here for some Navy frogmen who are going to Chardler to drive for MacVieas body. Montgomery had breakfast with her. He will be here for a couple of days. Spent morning and afternoon skinning, writing up notes and letters to go out tonight. In the evening set out traps on T2 and T8. 7 August - Ran T2 and T8 in the morning and took Montgomery out in weasel to look for bees. Skinned in the early afternoon. Later, Hunt and McDonald and I took the weasel across the river to the crashed helicopter. Mac took photos of it for his company's records. In the evening ran T2 and T8 again. 8 August - Ran T2 and T8 in the morning and skinned in the afternoon. Took Montgomery and McDonald down to the float-plane landing to meet Andy in the late evening. Ran the lines again. Around 2300 Charles Trotter and Russell Dutcher (coal) came in for a couple of days' work. Apparently, Otts expects me to feed all these people when they come to Uinta.