J.G.Hall 1954 252 17 Dec. Sagenen Creek, 6500ft., 3mi. NW Hobart Mills, Nevada Co., Calif. Main Camp Dick Gard drove us in from Hobart Mills in his jeep about 4:30. There's 2-3 feet of snow on the ground. Weather clear quite cold, getting below 0° every night. Dick Gard & Ray Allen have been hold- 18th Dec. ing down the fort./ Up by 8 AM for breakfast at which time the win- dow thermometer read -40° F. Didn't get started for U. Colony until 10 AM. Snow on way up was soft + we both tried the climbers on our skis & they work fine. Snowshoe, chickadee, weasel & minks (?) tracks (dragging tail) also coyote tracks. Birds seen on way up: Red-breasted Siskin, chickadees, r.b. martins. At 11:05 as Bob & I had entered timber just upstream from the Salmon meadow we saw + heard 6 thrushers flying high, 5 or SE & about over camp or between camp + highway 89. On U. Colony 11:35 at Gins Obs tree there was urine, + scat of coyote. Scat contained vegetable fibers for most part. Coyote tracks all over + around the pond. Evidence of a little cutting activity near lodge + some