Koford 1f Journal 25 October 1968 C. Los Caras, Rte 1 Nido Chihuahua, Mexico (Cuyamcs), including no obvious adult or or all full grown and all west of one. Later, about 2 mi above canyon, heard quail calls, whistling 139; initiated whistle & a jive came atop a boulder near me. / Both at camp 1730 having clocked 26.6 on pedometer. Act no tropes. Warm this evening. 26 October 1968 Sat. Drop specimens & moved camp 1.3 mile up C de Nido (from Los Caras fork), to location by "keyhole" cliffs. Departed 1435 for hike to summit & overnight stay there. 1515, reached stone hut essentially end of jeep road up El Tinderos. Went for 10 mi beyond (6400' a.s.l.). Copious acorn crops on ground in lower canyon. 1600, 6900', 3.7 mi pedometer, a canyon w. evidence high water, bridging dog jawes, exited from W. Main canyon must have had well to wall (100') flood; trail completely gone in many sections. Washed sand good for trackin, but none of wolf, lion, deer. 1735, reached join on trail, 8000 ft., 6.0 mi. from camp. Pleasant little stand pine here, & a large bear dropping Lotta mainly manzanita (abundant in vicinity), and seemed to have sound dropping (darkish, finer texture) atop first, as if from successive deposits. Perhaps only a few days old. No hair apparent in it. / Camped nearby; clear night but noticed intermittent light breeze. Wipers curious clouds eve. (a rest morning). No owls or coyoter heard. Several acres law manzanita here, some with many sweet drain berries attached. 27 October 1968 Sun. Clear days; light breeze. Departed summit area camp @ 15 and went down draw (Mezino drainage) to SW. Found small good 1/4 mile lawn, as in July. Continued down this canyon to jet with another branch (the one where camped in July), 2.5 mi. from camp, 7700' a.s.l. Heard Steller jays, junicos, acorn woodpeckers, small greenish warrio. Aspen and ash yellow; some of from leafless now. Some oaks also yellow or brown-leaved. Water intermittent in bottom. By one pool, found deer and uppermost wolf. Though latter several pieces in loose sand by streambed. 0945, 3.1 mi., where cubbed dry for a few hundred yards, a