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1. Cade
1959
General Account
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6 June Peters-Schroeder Lakes - Clear all
day until about 1930, North wind
blowing all day around 15 mph brought
in low clouds in the evening with
ceiling of less than 200 ft and visibility
of about 1 mile.
1000 - left camp for a walk up
Carnivore Creek, Walked up the
east side (right limit), going about
3 miles above the mouth - to a point
half a mile above where the stream
from the next glacier south of
Chambers Glacier flows into
Carnivore. There is a large dike
(movarite from the glacier) almost
closing off Carnivore Creek at the
point of entrance of this creek, Passed
through a series of wet meadows
much trampled by last year's herd
of some 30,000 caribou. An interesting
point about the trampling - where the
ground had been disturbed to the
point that the vegetation was gone -
creating muddy patches within the
meadows, there the shovelnose were
concentrated to forage in the mud.
Apparently these trampled areas create
favorable habitat for invertebrates.