28 Aug Fillhorn Plains, SLO Co, Calif. Weather today was hot (75°F Fmor and ~105°F midday). Wind blew from about 1000 on. Moon was 1 day past full, sky was slightly cloudy, though thin, high, patchy clouds. Got up at 0445 to check traps with Benny. We had set a 4 x 13 grid (~10m intervals) along a ravine with very shallow sides. Cover was no thicker in ravine than on the flats. The area is ~3/4 miles N of camp (thus about 1 1/4 mi from road + ~1/2 mile from a quail guzzler up in a canyon. ravines grid. . The catch was very poor and consisted primarily of Dingens on flats, Dimitri- toides along ravine. Also trapped one Persognathus (insatus or longuaries?). Also checked a grid of 2 x 10 stations at ~10m intervals that Natalia and I had set. This grid is about 1/2 miles NE from the 4x13 grid. It was in a steep ravine and along the