L. Davis 1942 88 San Ignacio - Los Escamiles, Dept. Chalatenango, El Salvador March 6, 1942 North. Here the same situation prevails, most of the east slope being stripped and very badly eroded. The slopes are covered with slides. Honduras lies to the east, the border lying only a couple of miles away, and the ranges in sight over there have suffered in the same manner as Los Escamiles. We stayed at a small farmhouse for the night. March 7, 1942. Proceeded from the farmhouse to a point on the E slope Los Escamiles, 7300', Dept. Chalatenango, El Salvador where we were given the use of a small, one room house located on a ridge between two canyons. There is a small patch of dry cloud forest, mostly elfslipye-covered oaks, on the ridge to the southeast. On the ridge to the north, natives are clearing land for wheat. The entire canyon well has been stripped, and there is some cloud forest on top of the ridge opposite our house. There is open grassy scrubland directly above our house and on the saddle between our ridge & the one to the south-east there are wheat fields. The trail to the top of the mountain lies on the latter ridge. There are several large stands of cloud forest between camp and the summit, the most extensive stands covering two peaks. The peak to the north is the summit of the mountain. The cloud forest evidently extends over the peak, forming the stands we saw from the plain.