March 26 [Day 23] (George Halmazna) The temperature at 0700 was -3C, rose briefly to 5C at 1100 and was 1.5C at 1630. It was essentially calm to 1100, then winds were variably light SE to NE for the rest of the day, and limited data from the Nakiska Ridgetop weather station indicated NE winds 10-19 km/h between 1000 and 1100. Cloud cover was 100% stratus all day, and snow moved in from the west around noon. By 1300 the west was 90% and the east 80% obscured, and by 1400 all ridges were obscured and remained so for the rest of the day. There was, however, some movement of Golden Eagles along the western ridges in the morning, with 14 birds (11a,3u) moving slowly from Mount Kidd to Olympic Summit to Mount Collembola and then to the NW over Skogan Pass between 1052 and 1122. The only other raptor seen was a hunting resident adult Northern Goshawk, and other birds included 8 American Robins, 30 Bohemian Waxwings and a flock of 3 chickadees that comprised 1 Black-capped, 1 Boreal and 1 Mountain Chickadee. 9.5 hours (222.35) GOEA 14 (555) TOTAL 14 (593)

Beauvais Ridge No observation. Snow started around 0830 and persisted to the early afternoon, but the mountains were obscured all day.

The further adventures of “Elaine” By March 25 Elaine had moved a fair distance to the NW to about 30 km N of Watson Lake in southern Yukon Territory.