Trail Log 1995-1997 - Lamar at Colorado State University

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56 a trust. Nolting, Mark O., Africa's Wildlife Countries. Guidebook distributed by Russel Friedman books. July 21, Friday. At breakfast, I met Dr. Baldur H. Koch, Department of Agriculture, Private Bag X120, Pretoria, South Africa. Interested in agricultural ethics. Picked up in combi by Wilderness Leadership School: Paul Cryer - he was the one bitten by a snake when Vance Martin's son was here. Bruce Dell - older and longtime trails leader. He later came to Stellenbosch to the wilderness workshop. Mike Weerts - officially the trails leader on this trip. Vincent Ncobo, a Zulu with the kwaZulu Parks Board, but placed with Wilderness Leadership School to get some trails going with some political figures. We drove to Eschowe, to leave Jane with Wayne Elliot and his seven dogs and two cats! please, 8 dogs, 3 cats Then we drove on to Umfolozi Park. The combined park is with Hluhluwe (pronounced almost flu flue ee). Once there was a corridor between them but now that is gone. We then left the van and packed out. I used their backpack and left mine in the van. Not a bad load at all. In this group there is only one gun up front. seen on the trail: baboons impala 7 rhinos, at some distance, though clearly visible. white-backed vulture impala 3 waterbuck wooly-necked stork crocodile We spent the first night at a throwdown camp in a sandy area. This was my first night in the bush with no fence around me. The guides look around a bit and try to find an area that has no animal tracks in it, where the animals are not coming through. You just put down your sleeping bag on a thin mat, and that's it. They get several pots of sand and pile it up to make a raised flat area for the fire. The cooking always starts out with browning some onions in a pot, and adding various ingredients subsequently, a sort of stew that is then poured over rice or some mealy stuff. I had to do the night watch from 1.30 a.m. to 3.00 a.m., with a flashlight that wasn't working well. But I kept the fire going pretty well! All told, a rather quiet night. Wood owl calling in the night. July 22, Saturday. Rather leisurely get up and cooking breakfast. Then we packed up and left, with considerable effort at "leaving no trace." This includes mixing the ashes up in the pile of sand and scattering it some
57 distance away to the four winds. Then you brush around over your tracks and cover the area you slept in. We more or less wandered around through the morning, then lunched at a large tree at the riverside, then forded the river, really not much of a ford, but you have to take your shoes off to do it. The sky was clear, though a few clouds gathering and a predicted front worried them, and they wanted a protected camp. We climbed up a gentle slope to a flatter area, and camped in a grassy area after some time deciding where the rhino were least often coming through. They pitched one rainfly. Black rhino browse and have larger twigs, cut at 45 degree angles. White rhino graze more and have less coarse dung. seen in the day on the trail: impala helmetshrike white backed vulture, flushed from nest hammerkop nest, with entrance hole Louis Liebenberg is better on tracks than the Clive Walker book. scarlet chested sunbird male nyala battaleur eagle water buck 5 kudu Some minute ticks were a bother, the early moult stages of a larger tick. They call these pepper ticks, and they get in especially around your socks. They are almost too small to see and rather like a chigger bite. They wear sandals and say this prevents their getting hold, though Wayne Elliot says this is not a good idea in the bush, and that you can just leave your socks off inside your boot and it works o.k. There was a bit of rain during the night, and they scrambled out and pitched the second fly, but it proved hardly necessary. July 23, Sunday. Cloudy day, though sometimes cloudy bright. We were off to a leisurely start again and more wandering around, this time up a higher area. 75 buffalo, seen at some distance downriver. 2-3 dozen impala warthog 5 impala warthog, up close We looked around several water holes where they reminisced about some adventures with rhino there in earlier days.
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Trail Log 1995-1997 Holmes Rolston,
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1995 January 4, 1995. Wednesday. Ad
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"Winnow" - the root is wind, vent,
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Worker's Directory. He gave me a co
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7 year. Leaving the hospital comple
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9 Bougainvillaea. Many kinds, all w
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11 Gerenuk - a very long necked ant
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13 I took a bird walk on my own, as
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Page 39 and 40: 31 We drove back around in the lake
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Page 43 and 44: 35 July 6. Thursday, continued. Met
Page 45 and 46: 37 July 10. Monday. Drove to Kruger
Page 47 and 48: 39 The guides go first, Jan up fron
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Page 59 and 60: 47 At Skukuza, I separated from Joh
Page 61 and 62: stand your ground. Be bold and nois
Page 63 and 64: 51 Red-billed woodhoopoe, with call
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Page 79 and 80: 65 the trashiest of all. Afternoon.
Page 81 and 82: 67 August 16. Wednesday. Day of mee
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Page 89 and 90: lawn). A near relative is Araucaria
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Page 93 and 94: track in the snow. We left about 11
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Page 101 and 102: Australia July 1 - August 19, 1996
Page 103 and 104: July 10, Wednesday. Drove to Laming
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Page 109 and 110: QUT. Elizabeth Saxon, sat beside me
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it later deteriorated. Wombat kille
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Seminar at 2.15 p.m Chris Mortenson
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Then to Murdoch University, lecture
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This cave is the pouch of the femal
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Huge streams pour off the rock in a
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ut not all that messed up. Turned a
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Trail Log 1997 February 22, 1997, S
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much better in the lower, protected
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To Tower Junction, then to Tower, l
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Back to the ranch. The coyote was a
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crows are unusual inside Yellowston
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as a bell in contrast to yesterday.
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I went up on a higher hill to try t
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Siberia and Lake Baikal June 15-29,
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Russia has an 80-year old system of
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In the dining car, there never seem
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Reached Zilovo, about 10.15, about
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City tour on a nice day. Population
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second oldest 2,000,000 years. It h
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Communism unraveled, and that, we t
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Thalictrum foetidum Grimmia calcare
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Walk to Shaman Rock. From the rock,
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Viola rupestris Euphorbia alpina Pl
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Lychnis sibirica Schizonepetala mul
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wapiti, elk (American term), red de
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July 16-18, 1997, Tuesday through F
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Events in Ft. Collins area: July 28
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Camped at Sarto Creek, in flats nea
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Shuttle back to Missoula, arriving
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Polygonum viviparum, Alpine Bistort
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