Salt 1947 Journal 3 1/2 mi E., 1/2 mi N., McChesney Mtn., 1900 ft., San Luis Obispo Co., Calif. Sept. 3. We are camped at the Dario Martinez cabin in just off Martinez Canyon on the La Panza ranch. Most of the road in traverses this ranch. The road is little more than a pair of ruts and required compound tow in the old truck at several spots. I should judge it would be almost unusable during wet weather both because of mud and because the washes through which we passed would be filled with water. The countryside is steep hillsides composed of basal conglomerate which is sharply cut into vertical cliffs and steep canyon sides along the larger water courses. On the more gradual slopes and hilltops there is a surface layer of fine hard packed dirt. Most of the gradual slopes are open grasslands, now brown and heavily grazed by cattle, with Blue Oak scattered about especially on the hillsides. The steeper hillsides are heavily clothed in a dense chaparral of 4 to 6 foot high manganita, scrub oak, Adenostoma, and Eriodictyon. A fairly large area has burned over the recent years and is now dominantly Eriodictyon.