Holy poop, I’m sore! Scaled forested mountain sides so steep today that I was sure I’d fall to my death, to be discovered days later, half eaten by wild lemurs. It would be so much more convenient if I weren’t afraid of heights as we do this transect work. Completed data for one “point de mesurage� today. It poured rain as we ate our rice tonight. Tomorrow will be more of the same gradient, but slippery as hell, to boot. I am exhausted and damp but can’t stop thinking how lucky I am to be out here doing this study and seeing this amazing forest—and cultivated land (interspersed pineapple, tsumanga, mangahazo (manioc?) zerofle (cloves?) is also on the transect line.)