Chiles 1959 Journal 3. June 10 Enroute to Wainwright (Curt) The Picture gear is a river about 50 ft wide and fairly deep. It opens into a beautiful valley with gentle sloping sides & the ridges of perhaps 1000' on either side and about 2-3 miles wide. It differs from Agiak lagoon locality in that it would be a longer walk to get to the higher, plateau like country but with a boy to carry the gear, who cares! The air photo show an extensive polygon area about two miles from camp as well as the extensive tussock areas so typical of that country. The weather was very warm and sunny, making the whole area look like northern Scotland. There was considerably more mouse sign along the river than at Agiak. There were many spiral burrows along the river also. We flew up the river about 10-15 miles and saw 2 herds of caribou, one of 16 and the other of 20. Then we flew across to the coast and over the site at Bearfoot. I could see little difference in the vegetation of these areas but Bearfoot has a series