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a quiet day -- a bit of laundry & a lot of reading. Ballad of the Sad Cafe & all of Grand Babylon Hotel. Salmon for supper in mushroom soup. 
I went out only once altho I intended to go twice. I know it is beautiful outside but it simply is not worth getting plastered in snow. Still powerful at 11:30.

[[underlined]] Saturday, January 9 [[/underlined]]

Wind kept up all night. It was fun to listen to it. Powerful gusts, then all quiet. By morning I was ready to get up, but the gale sounded powerful as ever. By 9:45, though, John was outside saying we would go out in about an hour. It developed that they were going to last year's camp site, clear it out & bring everything here. They 3 didn't need us, so we waited here, picked up our gear from a whole day of lounging. Then we went up onto the plateau to sweep back & forth across the ice field where we 1st say & flagged meteorites Dec. 26.

It was a gorgeous day. When we 1st got up there it was 20[[degree symbol]]f w 18 mph. Cold into the wind & warm into the morning sun. Wide patches of rippled blue ice with wisps of ice crystals

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coursing [[strikethrough]] sou [[/strikethrough]] northward. We traversed acres of ice & snow -- 5 of us -- w. no sighting at all. Then, suddenly, I saw a meteorite; First of the day and dead ahead, right in the path of my ski. A great sight. I parked & waited quite a while before my 3 companions realized I had dropped behind. Then, when they noticed, I waved & John came coursing back. It was a fair-sized stone larger than a peach. During the rest of the day I had good luck. Saw several more, including one more achondrite w. glassy crust -- 3 for this season! Actually this one & the 1st one I saw on the 26th & one John collected up there last year may well have been pieces of the same achondrite.

John Schutt broke the ski on his snowmobile today -- makes him [[strikethrough]] lest [[/strikethrough]] less mobile than before. He hopes to get a replacement on an early helo. [[Ian Williams??]] is coming up -- scheduled for next Wed. to take ice cores & figure out the dynamics. By then we will use [[??]] echo sounds at ea. station. Then it will be nearly time to leave -- weather permitting yet Bill is still planning a trek to the Western ice  fields! He had dinner w. us tonight & outlined all this. Gh & I are anxious to go  back to McM on our original schedule -- 21st or thereabouts. It is all very interesting. Meanwhile it is lovely here & we are