R. MOON 1987 Journal 52 5 May Blind Spring, Providence Mountains, San Bernardino Co., CA. Bruce and I hiked toward Blind Spring from the dirt pipeline road at Vulcan Mine. We headed east on the pipeline road until we got to Foshay- Spring. From there we went north and east up the ridges between the washes toward Blind Spring; however, because we had forgotten the map we didn't know where the spring was. We never did find Blind Spring but we found out later that it was only one wash over (east) from where we hiked. We headed up the canyon that goes nearly all the way Fountain Peak and is two canyons west of Blind Spring on the map. On our way up the ridges and washes we trail blazed through some of the most dense, thorny vegetation I have seen so far. The most abundant plants there were chollas, catclaws, some impassable prickly pear outcrops, and short grasses with lots of stickers. Also Yuccas and some Creosote bushes. At about 1500m elev. the large wash cont'd