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The temperature is forty-five degrees above zero at the beginning of July. Dick panics when he cannot find his axe. Fortunately he just misplaced it and wonders why he put it where he finally finds it. He determines to put things in their proper place in the future. He celebrates finding his axe by taking a hike. Dick crosses the lake to see a bull caribou struggling with the insects through his binoculars. He wears a head net that he doesn't like to wear when hiking. He climbs up the slope to escape the bugs by climbing higher than they fly. When he is beyond range of the bugs, he unloads his gear to look for what he can find on the hills.

Dick watches a bear digging in ground squirrel dens. Nearby he spots a mother bear with...