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finish the letter so I put it away. The stewardess was a real cute blond. 
We landed at Li hue Airport in just about 1/2 an hour. After picking up two 
paekbacks, we got a car from national Rent-A-Car. The attendant was overly 
helpful. In Linue we stopped at a grocery store. and bought three days' worth 
of food. I drove our Chevrolet Chevelle out on route 50 just to Menehune (?) 
Fishpond, by wrong turn, then out to Wainea. In a little town beyond Wainea 
(Kekalis I think) we inquired directions for Wairaea Canyon. We found the 
road and I drove up the windy twisting road. We drove to the Lookout and 
tried to position ourselves with Warren King's map. We were confused and 
started looking for good burrow places from our vantage point. We decided to 
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go down to a scenic ttail which would give us a view of the other side of an 
interesting ridge. There were several good looking places so we decided to 
go back to the lookout and hiked down from there. At the lookout we changed 
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into field clothes and donned our packs: Larry carrying the 200 foot rope, 
and I all miscellany. We hiked along the rim of the canyon a short ways 
south of the Lookout then headed down along the ridge. It was real steep 
with lots of loose dirt. The rock3 were real rotten and crumbled in your 
hand. It was real treacherous and you had to watch your step, lest it 
crumble and you are pitched into the chasm. Good one. As I&rry headed to 
a lower set of our croppings, I left ny pack by a bunch of trees, and 
started searching the grass slopes for burrows. I worked along the base of 
a few small cliffs and found only one or two old tunnels. I saw a mouse 
in one. Larry called me down to his level and when I got there I found his 
rope tied around his pipe and the other end over the precipice. He called 
out his purposes down the 15 0 foot cliff as I watched the rope with the 
pipe on. I sat for around 1/2 an hour as Larry worked the base of that cliff 
