17 May Southeast of Goldstone Spring, Providence Mountains, San Bernadino Co., CA. Middle it became narrow with steep, rocky sides and somilimes vertical cliffs. Then down past the upper spring and past Goldstone Spring all the way back to my car at the pipeline road. It's much hotter down near Vulcan Mine than it was up on the high ridges. 1500 PST; the entire hike from the pipeline road up to the peaks and back down to the road took just under seven hours. Then back to the Granites where Bruce had stayed for most of the day because he didn't want to do a hard hike (too lazy). I looked up what Bighorn sheep pellets looked like and verified that I had seen several piles of sheep pellets on the high ridge in sec 5 of T9N R14E.