Pleasant 1974 Puerto Joman but were lined onto a dirt road NE up into the Cerros de Chocorento, taking off a few miles north of Bella Union. After several miles we suddenly encountered a wide paved road (transverse to ours) with a center stripe, curve signs etc. Apparently it is completely abandoned and was converted to a now-defunct and dismantled mine. We took the right branch, part abandoned foundations and deteriorating roads and finally ended in a beautiful valley filled with 5 ft high clumps of columnar cactus (a forest), flowering tomatoes, assorted other flowers, lots of grass some still green, and deep stalks looking like columnar stalks as much as 8 ft tall. We caught no signs of grazing, no people for miles. The vegetation definitely on the dry side but still quite a few flowers. We camped at 2400 ft. on the north-west side of the valley across from a mine-dump RR track that comes straight down the hill to a loading platform. A huge mining operation can be seen one of our more stony Cero Campana 1678 m nearly, up above, probably across that valley from us. Set out a 10 x 10 grid with 10 yard spacing and set Sherman boots with cats, every station around the periphery and every other station on the middle lines. Two large Sherman followed by one small. The zebras here are saying "good morning