Jonich 1953 Eskimo Notes Point Barrow, Alaska It is relatively flat, and fills in many of the spaces and cracks between the broken ice. The whole thing freezes up fast, about 40" of ice so it is all perfectly safe to walk over. I rue one sometimes slips deep in the soft snow, up to the lances, when crossing the pressure ridges but that is not bad, besides we were following a trail made by other adventurers since the light snow early this week. The few warm days have caused circles to form here and there off the tilted blocks. The sunlight causes "blue ice", the softest shades imaginable, grading to white. Thus some really spectacular little grottos are formed. None that I inspected were occupied by polar bears. They are out with the seals this time of year. One eskimo shot a bear a few miles up the coast, about $200 worth of hide. Out at the ice edge the remains of a huge whale was left, the head about 10' long with the baleen fronds waving like a palm tree in the light wind. There were