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Palmer
1937
Itinerary
Jan.7 Eslino & Aguanga cont'd
cont'd stopped at The Aguanga store and asked if there were any auto camps in that region. Learned there was one at Temet and that cars had been going through on the Aguanga-Temet road. I tried about a mile of that road but it was slipping and sliding in soft mud all the way and decided 20 mi. of that was too much so I turned back and returned to Temecula & then south on the inland route about 4 mi. where I found cabins at Rainbow. At Rainbow made 7 sets with Macabee traps in fresh gopher burrows. Soil there is reddish clayey type. Traps were set in open fields overgrown with Erodium and weeds with some Artemisia occidentalis. Stayed at Rainbow and skinned gophers while the rain r had beat down on the roof of the cabin - glad I wasn't out in it.
Jan.8. Rainbow, 1043 ft., San Diego Co., Calif. Took up 7 sets of gopher traps here this A.M. & found 2 Mononep buttes in the traps.