J. Groth 1988 journal 234. April 17 At about 10 am I drove N out of Berkeley and headed to Oregon. Bay area weather was coudy, drizzly, and cool. I took decoys 274 and 306 along. I drove up Interstate 5 to Ashland, Oregon. Along the route was rain + poor weather, and I hit a bad patch of wet hail and spun the truck out just a mile or two past Weed, California. All ok. The tire is badly leaking air, and at Ashland I tried another repairation while squatting in the rain. From Ashland, I took Oregon Highway 66 East to Klamath Falls. This road went through heavily used (logged, grazed, etc) forest of ponderosa pine and douglas fir. The ponderosa pine was mainly small, and the cone crops were poor on all trees. No snow was seen. I stopped to photograph a white pelican in the Klamath River. The weather became only partly cloudy east of the Cascade rige. I took Oregon Highway 97 north out of Klamath Falls, to Chiloquin, and then unsuccessfully tried to find my old 1985 campsite in the forest near Saddle Mountain. Cone crops here were poor, but some old ponderosa pine cones. I camped in a pine savanna area just