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f ay way around to northeast side cairn on highpolnt at 1415 and park my 
kelty pack on 2 l/2 foot high 4 foot dla. ceirn that has 2 by 2 Inche 
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stake and J or four bamboo canes projecting from top 2 or 3 foot and 
one of the metal fence poles they marked, the trail with lying nearby. 
Register book placed l4 May '61 and seme notebook paper In "Mauna Kea" 
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brand coffee can. Recognita Gibson Reynolds and Bruce Gilbert among 
registrants; also Dwight Hamilton twice. Partly cloudy and cold with 
wind blowing from northeast at 39° F» A dark fly 2 ram long and some 
black parasitic wasps 5 mm long I note as well as occasional cottonwood 
i like seeds blowing by and a paper bag I pull from cairn has been partially 
/ shlmshaved by c mouse! Larry had seen a mouse at the 9000* cabin. I 
wait over an hour, starting down about 1540 hours on the trail, which 
leads over large snowbank one registrant remarked was present in July 
to the base of the cone befosre I see Larry near top. I try to go 
back up to take his summit photo but he‘s left when I get there. Seems 
to be no seabird nesting habitat in these cinder cones. Highest plants 
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are grass and a fern and some green moss all very sparce to 13,000. We 
descent by the sterile lake and old trail to the "Adze Cave" at about 11,000 
where the ancient# have chipped off huge pites of fine-grained basaltic; 
rode. In one of the caves I find a midden and take bone uraterial from 
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that would have required quite a tidal wave! Dandelions are abloom 
above timber line near 10,000. 
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