Jonich 1953 Eskimo Notes May 30 Point Barrow Alaska - drive a dozen for the base has acres and acres and stacks and stacks of them. I guess they are not worth hauling back to Seattle for refills - hence the handy one trip disposable garbage cans. I wondered at first who would bother to haul out refuse but I suppose the hospital, school, church, weather station, and possibly a few other people do. The town looks more like garbage was hauled in rather than out, but we in fact did see a venerable old Cat with tracks sagging unbelievably low, nearly a foot, plodding out a days, weeks, or months accumulation of a dozen or so cans to dump with the others on the ice. Not far out the snow was clean and smooth on the ice and we could see the blue and orange striped flag on the first pressure ridge, locating the whale. We walked out, with a dog team passing us and another meeting us. The out- going contained a couple of old women proceeding to the carcass, with a boy driver, and a younger woman along. The trail led through a pass