Alaska journal, v4429
Page 225
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MacLean 1965 Journal 26 June Barrow, Alaska Beautiful clear, warm weather. Drove out towards Pitelka's Plot and found Central Marsh has become Central Lake. The cold water and relatively warm air was causing a dense ground fog pouring off of every wet area; i.e.- all of central marsh and Holmes' Morass. Was really impressive, MacBethish, but knocked visibility way down. Checked for Curlew Sandpiper but couldn't see much through the fog. Walked straight across the Morass. In a little over one day it has gone from 90% snow cover to 10%, and it is really wet! The low polygons in the West end are all flooded, and the entire flar East end is under 4 to 6 inches of water. The fog pouring off of the water made observing near impossible. East edge of the morass was perfectly clear, due to the East winds which moves the fog westward (for some reason the lagoon was not fog producing). Found a convenient dry polygon and spent some time checking