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We drove up to the pass again and waited while it got dark. Then 
♦•at 1910 hours I heard them come in - the first calls from the direction 
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of the cinder cone. Larry didn't believe me at first, they were so 
faint he thought it was his stomach gurgling. But the eerie "Cooah-Coah- 
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Cooah" became louder with some ptarmigan- like clucking on the end so we 
knew and rushed out and up the cone, but they weren't landing just 
circling the puu in apparent courtship flight, a pair with high and low 
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voices and occasionally a third bird, though a fourth may also have 
occasionally been In the are. They seemed to come a little closer 
when we first in® it a ted them and we saw their white bellies in our 
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flashlights' .beams, but they were more interested in their own 
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gyrations. For two hours we enjoyed their music then went back south, 
I climbing 9096 : feet up Puu Kaiwliwi on the way. We spied on animal 
I think was a mouflcn sheep briefly as it crossed the read. Temperature 
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at 2200 40° F» We drove up the new Mauna Kea Road to its present end 
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up but Larry didn't want to wait. So we went all the way out to the 
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little road opposite Kuimam cave to sleep in jeep be cats e of the rain. 
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Finally get started for Mauna Loo. I'd visited the weather station 
guy at the airport yesterday and he said there were no locked gates so 
we took the road off the Saddle Road just before the Puu Huluhulu, but 
took two right turns that were wrong before we got on the long swith back 
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of the weather station road Which would have be , , , „ ;V 
en passable by 
to the 11,150* weather station whose big argon light we've been seeing 
