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the tent in the back end was just four inches above our faces. When 

 it flapped in the wind the water would spatter off the underside. 

 Everybody was tired and we got a good night's rest. Our camp was 

 at 2600 ft. 



This certainly is no country for inexperienced campers. Every hill 

 and rock look the same and half the time the mist and clouds obscure 

 the way. Poor Woody is completely discouraged at the lack of vege- 

 tation and all evening kept planning the remarks he would give the 

 "arm-chair" botanists at Cambridge who said he would be able to 

 collect at 4500 ft. 



I Position At Nachvak 

 Monday, August 16th < Weather Cloudy with some rain 



I Wind Northeast 



OLLY remarked when we awoke that he could well see why 

 arctic explorers remained sometimes for several days in their 

 sleeping bag. It was still raining and bitter cold. All our shoes were 

 outside the tent, there being no room inside, and of course the 

 breakfast would be a cold one. We decided to leave the packs and 

 tent and look about during the day before lugging all this stuff fur- 

 ther. We made our way up the brook and past four small ponds. 

 The further we went the more rock there was, mostly of small 

 pieces. Terry remarked that Grandpa would consider this place 

 heaven as "Rock certainly was wonderfully cheap." About noon we 

 came to a divide and the water began flowing NE. Johnny and Oily 

 went ahead and found that the valley turned towards the sea and 

 ran roughly parallel to Nachvak. The floor of this valley was about 

 3000 ft. at this point. At 3500 the snow line began. There were 

 large banks of snow lying about which supplied water to the 

 brooks. The ground was so hard and the country so new that the 

 brooks had not had time to cut any well-marked path. Luckily the 

 rain let up for lunch. I took a bad tumble on a small glacier and 



