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Cade
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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.