Journal Aug 17, 1962, Snare River, Alaska; After a false start earlier this morning, we came in after lunch with the first load of camp equipment and one pack of traps. The "we" were pilot, Bob Murphy, Gil Challet, (Bohnsack's assistant to sample area for insects), and myself. I started setting line IV and was finished when the second load came in with Hines and Mullin aboard. Dave came just to look around and returned immediately. Hines & I decided to set up camp first which was fortunate because it was raining before we finished setting the lines. It rained until nearly midnight and then just the wind blew. The area is soggy and the vegetation as lush as Barrow if not more so. Of course the dwarf willow adds more foliage to the tops of many polygons allowing an impression of greater greenness. Aug 18, 1962 Snare River, Alaska; We checked traps first thing and after breakfast left to look at the fish camp about a mile east of our camp. I tried to photograph some caribou that were on our side of the river but couldn't get close enough. This day we counted our fifty by searching the entire horizon. We returned, read, had a snack, checked traps, and read until it was too dark.