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Surveyor Olof Anderson poses with his enormous relief model of the Trinity County area which contains Abbott's cabin. The model, which is three-dimensional, topographically-correct, and drawn to-scale, shows the Abbott cabin and garage (two separate buildings) and Stephanie Bryan's gravesite further up the hill from the cabin. On November 30, the Oakland Tribune carried a story on the model: "A scale-model relief map of a Trinity County hillside may help answer a key question for jurors who will decide Burton W. Abbott's guilt or innocence. "The question: Could Abbott carry the 105-pound body of Stephanie Bryan up the hill from his cabin on Hayfork Creek to her grave beneath a giant yellow pine tree? "The relief map, brought into court yesterday and mounted on a table in easy view of the jury, models the uphill slope between Abbott's cabin and the Berkeley girl's grave. ... "Abbott looked at it in court yesterday and termed it a "monstrosity." Whitney referred to it repeatedly as a "thing," and once as "somebody's idea of a work of art." "Olof Anderson, chief deputy Alameda County surveyor, led a survey crew that plotted contour and elevation of the area two months ago....