The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-09-28

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 Surveys in the field were made from a main camp site on the upper reaches of Harvard Basin between the upper ice cliffs of the Twin Glaciers at 4,250 feet, looking out to Devils Paw, fingered peak at the head of the glaciers. A vast smooth highway of high level snow stretching for 10 miles from this base camp toward Devils Paw was named Haedes Highway by tn e party. A number of other new names were given to prominent fea- lures in the area surveyed, and will Le submitted to the Board on Geo. graphic Names in Washington, D. 70. this fall.
 Markers Set Up
 One of the main projects of the expedition was the setting up of markers to determine vertical and horizontal glacier movement.
 We established series of stakes between II and i8 feet high. roped and Jagged and located accurately with the plane table method of mapping. By observing the position of the markers on our next sum- mer's trip, we hope to be able to de- termine something about the char acter of upper ice movement and al rai, lot 1v, character of winter accumulation of sncw. There are new techniques being tested for such study Miller said.
 Members of the expedition, along with Miller and Latady, were Tony Thomas, Juneau, observer for the LU. s. Forest Service; Melvin Mar GUS, undergraduate in geology at Yale University; Lowell Chamber lain of Harvard University and w. Lawrence Miner, Jr, graduate stu- dent in the College of Business. Stanford University.
 Squirrel On Ice Field Most astonishing sight of the trip was bushy tailed squirrel hop ping across the ice field at 4,000 feet according to Lawrence Miner, who said there were no trees for 10 miles in any direction Only oth- CT sign of animal life on the ice cap were several weasels seen at the same level Members of the ex- pedition had no explanation for the existence of the small animals on such unadaptable terrain.
 A collection of flora on isolated rock islands and ridges on the ice field was made by Chamberlain for an analysis in regard to plant mil grafton. Observation of plant life at low level of the glacier appears to indicate a very great advance of
 ce between 50 and 75 years ago, Miller said.
 The expedition got unGer way from Juneau September l with four men forming an advance party to reach the high camp site. Miller and Latady went to Annette Island to make arrangements for a Navy plane to drop food and supplies.
 Short On Rations | Miner, who was a member of the advance party described difficulties in getting to the high altitude food drops
 We made two trys to get to the ice field and had to turn lack be- cause of bad weather. We had five days supply of K-rations for three men and had to make it last for nine days when on finally reaching our site, blizzard conditions prevent ed us from getting out to search for the food dropped by the planes The two parties met on September g and sat out another 9-day bliz- gard
 Coldest temperatures encountered on the ice field was 15 degrees above zero, according to Latady who act { ed as meteorologist for the party Maximum and minimum thermo- meters were left at high levels on the ice cap to get record of win ter temperatures.
 Also left in the area were caches of food and equipment which will be used by the group in next summers explorations.
 The expedition was the first to go back into this ice field area, and was in virtually unexplored country We found the area to be a se- ries of interlocking ice fields with mountains jutting up through, and not rounded ice cap as has been popularly believed Miller said. Latady will return to duties with the Aeronautical Chart Service foI the Armed Forces in Washington, D iC. Miller will continue graduate study in geology at Columbia Uni versity where he is working on his