R. MOON 1987 Journal 98 27 May Baker and Salt Creek north of Baker, San Bernadino co., CA. After Soda Lake we went to Baker for food before heading north to night drive to look for snakes. We stopped at Salt Creek and looked around there. At the north end of the creek, where the water stops flowing, we saw tire tracks where a truck had driven right up the creek bed, digging up the soil and smashing much of the streamside vegetation. Then we drove up to the Amargosa river valley and stopped to photograph the sunset. We also stopped along the road somewhere where we saw a rocky hill that we hiked around on unt.i dark. On our way back to the truck at the road Bob almost stepped on a sidewinder that was stretched out across a small wash. We drove back toward Baker after dark and found only a leaf nosed snake that had been run over by a semi truck that passed us heading the other direction. On our way we couldn't find Salt Creek again in the dark so we headed back to the Granites and Dorner's camp.