Over a dull weekend in early spring a group of six from Ankara made a two-day walk from Kerkenes to Hattusa. Of the 73 km only the final stretch followed a modern road. The aim, apart from exercise and fresh air, was to get a feel for Hittite landscape. The terrain was easy with nowhere that the Hittites could not have taken carts. In reverse, it was striking that the Kerkenes Dag stood out from the top of the first ridge, and from every ridge thereafter. When the Great King went from his capital to the sacred mountain of Kerkenes, probably Mount Daha, the next point on the horizon, in a direct line, was the snow-capped Erciyes Dag. Included in this issue is a short report on an Imperial Hittite stone and sculpture quarry located 20 km ENE of Kerkenes surveyed in 2002 by Erol Ozen, then Director of the Yozgat Museum, and Geoffrey Summers. Perhaps some 600 years older than the city at Kerkenes these prowling lions, although unfinished, exude life and strength. At Kerkenes, in an exceptionally dry year the ground remained damp just long enough for resistivity survey of the Iron Age Palatial Complex. The surprising results are presented here. Work at the Cappadocia Gate was undertaken before completion of a monograph while Scott Branting dug seven test trenches to develop modelling of streets and traffic flows. Noel Siver, assisted by Tiffin Thompson, have all but finished joining the smashed sandstone fragments of stone idols and architectural elements. Restoration of selected pieces was begun. The new workshop for stone mending and restoration was completed in September.