al DeBenedicti 1961 Jan 3 memories and recollections. a base camp as possible. On the good side, we did get our medicines in Mexico, and each vehicle had some degree of control over its own members. 4 or 5 is a maximum, good working group, and two are best. - Recollectious day by day now - (Dec 15. It was all dark through the central valley and impossible to see anything. The back of the truck was fine, but there were lots of cold drafts. We used all our snake bags to plug them, and had to keep under blankets. About the time we got to Bakersfield, early in the morning I began to feel a warm draft. Till we could see during the day was a narrow slit of scenery between the top of the door and the frame of the roof covering. The spot we stopped in at the Tezhachapis is along the highway in dense pine-oak forest. Everything was moist and seem- ed O.K. for salamanders. If they occur here, they are found through much of the mountains. I was in back most of the time after lunch, but rode in front from Te-hachapi to Mojave. This morning we were supposed to stop at Bakersfield. All of a sudden Gene (who was in back) yells that were on 365 well in the Tehachapis. We were slightly upset. Ted had stopped a couple of times to collect, and we thought he had done the same.