K.E. Johnson 1969 Journal Feb. 14 Berkeley, Calif. to Reno, Nevada. Got away from Berkeley about 2 PM and arrived at Truckee well after dark, too late to hunt Rosy Finches on Peavine Mtn, so we (Jenny & I) went ice skating at Squaw Valley & then drove to the Sagehen Creek & started to snowshoe in in a blizzard. There was no sign of the road or the shidoo tracks & route finding was nearly impossible due to wind driven snow in our eyes. We turned back to the car & drove down to Reno for the night. Feb 15 Reno, Nevada & Truckee, Calif. areas Drove back to Sagehen and I snowshoed in to arrange a shidoo ride for us & our equipment in the evening at 8 PM. It took only 25 minutes to snowshoe in 2 miles! We returned again to Reno & then up Peavine Mtn to the white shaft where N.K Johnson & John Spencer had found birds in. I had seen about 100 birds there last week. We spread seed all along one side of the shaft in hopes that birds would feed there & that we could trap them there the next day. The shaft was already full of birds on our arrival. We returned again to Sagehen. Feb 16 Sagehen Creek, Calif.; Peavine Mtn, Nevada; to Berkeley, Calif. Beautiful weather this morning (it had snowed on the