Here, H. 1997 June 14 Big thunderstorm hit ~0300h and heavy rain fell until ~dawn. Thunder usually 3-6 seconds after lightning flashes and so frequent often a new flash before previous thunder rolls off. This was finally reminiscent of other tropical downpours I've experienced. At 0730h I awaked to no rain, lowlands totally soaked in and misty clouds on the surrounding peaks, and the sound of the waterfalls in the canyon is louder. After breakfast Jim's trooper brings in a moon rat, a big insectivore harking to some neotropical marmosials, and Patterson is really excited. At now I sit out on our volcano w/ coffee, watch misty irregular squadrons of clouds stream up the canyon like floats in a celestial parade. Thinking about Vietnam War, how incredibly hard and unsightly to have humped a pack and fought in such terrain (e.g., leeches) and how astoundingly that this relatively backward country withstood and triumphed over U.S. military power. Back to mountain ridges not once here have I seen a bird flying - though Dave Hardy