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18 May
Dorner's Camp, Granite mountains,
San Bernardino co., CA.
Stayed around Dorner's cabin for
most of the day. We've been here
almost two months and Bruce and
I are getting tired of the isolation.
We're not too thrilled about each
other's company either; I've been doing
a lot of the hard hikes and hard
work myself because he's too lazy
and doesn't want to have to hike to
new places to see them. He's also much
too careless about capturing rattlesnakes.
He also wants to collect and kill
every specimen he finds. Recently he
killed a large speckled rattlesnake just
to skin it so he could take the skin
home. He also stole a U.S. Geologic Survey
marker just to add to his collection of
personal junk. That really upset me so
I'm going to find out what I can do
about it so he becomes discouraged about
doing similar things in the future.
Bruce gets upset with me because I
often don't want to night drive and look