B.R. Moon 1987 Journal 57 7 May Granite Mountains to Santa Cruz, CA. Bruce Wagg and I left for Santa Cruz this morning at 0730 PST. We stopped at Granite Cave to drop some things off to Phillippe and then we hit the road. On Kelbaker Road, at the end of the pavement near the highway, we found a large Mojave Rattlesnake on the pavement (Species account: Mojave Rattlesnake). It was mostly cloudy over the desert but we didn't get any rain on the way out. When we got to Bakersfield it got hot- no clouds over the valley. We took Hwy 5 up to 152 and then over to Watsonville where it was foggy. We arrived in Santa Cruz (on campus) at 1600 PST. The trip took us 8 1/2 hours (-45 min for breakfast) at a speed of about 15 mph past legal.