Quast 1948 Journal 13 April 13 El Mayor, 30 ft., Rio Hardy, Baja California 8:45 P.M. Arrived here approx. 6:30 P.M. after the drive from San Felipe, leaving there at 12:30 P.M. The drive was over approximately the same terrain as described for April 8, except that we drove on a different road across the playa about 30 mi north of San Felipe for a short stretch - closer to the mountains, thereby avoiding the high center in the roads traveled on the 8th. We were delayed about an hour 10 miles south of El Mayor where they were putting in a large corrugated iron culvert. About 10 men were putting in the culvert by hand and had difficulty in lining it up and getting the sections to interlock properly. The mountains above the playa described on the 8th are absolutely dried and of colors ranging from red to jet black. Innumerable pockets dot their surfaces and sections of them look like cooled globes of slag. The new highway to San Felipe will run tangent to them and through some of the jet black ones. In some places the wind-blown sand gathers in the crests and follows in exactly the way as snow. From the way the new roadway looks it will be a very ample 2 lane highway.