2.MOON 1987 Journal 84 20 May East side of Fashay Pass, Providence Mountains, San Bernardino co., CA. I got a flat tire due to a rock making a cut in the inside sidewall of my rear tire. So I put on the spare and then went up to Mitchell Caverns to talk to the ranger John Kelso-Shelton. He let me look through some of the old notes on the snake species previous rangers had found in the area; I found some interesting notes on Black-headed snakes, Ringneck snakes, and Patch-nosed snakes. John also showed me some old photographs of the town of Providence at Bonanza King Mine during the 1950's. I saw a photo of the house that once stood on a foundation which Bruce and I had camped on. All that's left of that house now is a cement platform, and old stone shed with a tin roof, and piles of core samples. Supposedly, the town of Providence was one of the wildest towns in the area. It's pretty quiet there now. I headed back to the Granites via Hwy 40 and arrived to find that Claudia Luke, Harry Greene and several other people had cont'd.