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the last couple nights. Met Howard Ellis there, very friendly young 
chap In Spite of all the RESTRICTED - NO TF53SP. signs who says birds 
(he couldn't describe) sometimes are attracted by light up there. Many 
die, but he revives some with shot of oxygen. Tells us to drop back later. 
Now road is real jeep road up through loose cinders jagged aa and 
wrinkly pohoehoe. Barren Country. We switchback far east back over 
station, then back and gradually up the cloudy dome till at last the 
road ends at a desolate weather bureau shack we reach about 13,500. A 
half mile of cairns and stakes I follow alone from there over bubbly 
phoehoe to a sirs 11 cairn 50 * back from the awesome crater rim supporting 
twenty foot or so survey flag standard based on 1955 USGS brass cap 
guyed to smaller cairns in one of which was rusty condensed milk can 
with very few papers dating back to 195? and including L. Nichols last 
year. Also couple wooden signs there painted up with military names 
and units 1959 and 1963 . I throw rooks into crater and hear big roar 
(slides, not pele) but itarull of mist so I can’t see if there are any 
tropicbirds. Back at jeep we decide to wait for it to clear so we sack 
out and more of the sleet we had a touch of earlier comes, then changes 
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to real show Which soon coats the jeep and parts of tte ground, but then 
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turns to slush or the precipitation switches to rain. By 1730 hours 
it is obvious that it won't clear sufficiently in the crater before 
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dark so we start down, pausing at the small cinder cone about 12,000 
to run over and listen from its top. little cairn there, but no birds. 
(DID NOT FINISH — L. H.) 
