Gill, Douglas E. 
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Larry was discouraged. We worked dorm the slope into the next canyon 
and were confronted with a high abrupt cliff. Larry wanted to work around 
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the base of it arount the other side so I agreed to meet him on top after 
working this side. It was an ideal cliff and I found several recent good 
looking burrows. My enthusiasm increased as I found a fairly good carvass 
of a dark rump outside one burrow. I worked eagerly up the base of the 
ridge to the top. Instead of working the bridge "separating" ridge I decided 
to contact and wait for Larry. I called and found that he was way below, 
probably just working around the point. He called back that it was the 
wrong canyon and something else I didn't catch. I waited for him to come 
up but after about 15 minutes I still saw no sign: no noise or light. I 
called and got no answer. After continually calling for another l/2 hour 
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I still got no response. I was sure he had to be in one of the two aides 
of this bridge on top of which I was and he must be able to hear me, I 
was quite worried that I still got no response so after much deciding, 
decided to go back to camp, just in case he had headed back, I was 
frantically moving quickly along the slope, and was startled twice by 
exploding chukar s . Oh while I was on top a couple of Dark-rumps kept 
flying by and calling, so I suspected we were in a good spot, I called 
again and got an answer below - Larry and yelled before that he was going 
back to camp and that is what I hadn’t heard. I was relieved and laughed 
somewhat at my unnecessary worry. But it would be so easy to get lost 
or hurt on these slopes. We met and got back to our out-cropping. Since 
we were coming back tomarrow Larry decided to leave his pack here, but 
I thought it best to take mine. He was tired - discouraged that our 
