Saturday
October 30
1926
Van Leeuwen and the transport were off at nine. We sent a note to Prince telling him to come up on the next transport. It was raining and the outlook was for a nasty day. Dick evidently isn’t having good weather to take his picture up above for the last two days have not been clear. We spent most of the day reading. At five Dick came into camp. He had left the top at eleven and had made it back in a little more than a half a day. The carriers arrived just after dark. It was bad all the time he was there and he didn’t get a good shot at the snow. He took some but the lite wasn’t good. It rained heavily the night before and he got drenched. He was away five days. He had come down very quickly for the others had taken most of a day to make the return trip. Leroux developed some of the pictures he had made of the Snow Mountains and they turned out well. Some not so good but he thinks that he will have {F4.80} enough good ones to show the view splendidly. Dick was all enthused over the view from the top of the ridge. He said that the afternoon they arrived it was excellend [sic] but that the next morning and until he left not once was it possible to make a general picture although at times they could see portions of the snow.
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