Alaska Catalogue and Journal, v4423
Page 441
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Bevediiter 1968 Journal 14 August Meade River Coal Mine, (57°25'W), 70°27'N, Above Day Still!) and got lot of scenery & flower photos here. Crittley Creek across the marshy area set off by the ox box & flew over 2+ Pectrals and at least 3 Columbines on a sly, frozen Cows pool area (Nearshore type); They were very shy and flew off rapidly to another section of the world. Mosquitoes not all dead yet, but they are only slightly annoying, and only in the most sheltered places. Almost all the flowers I saw & August are now dead, only Solidago and some late composites really flowering a lot. Spent the evening in camp critter and photographed the sunset, which was lovely again. Mist fell tonight. 15 August Fairly windy until about 3PM then only windy, but almost cleared up. Staged in camp writing notes. After dinner went to the village to look at the ice formations in the meat cellars; saw a flock of 15 longspurs & several lone birds around the village but no shorebirds. The ice rather pretty and the ice wedge show clearly. To boil the cellars stink so from the fish guts, kept in them. Found a new grain on the very back (Calamagrostis) and it began to snow, leaving the sunders speckled white by 9PM.