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Big Pine Camp, Angeles National Forest, Los Angeles Co., Calif.
To Lake Arrowhead, San Bernardino Co., Calif.
May 3, 1946
Lajon we continued on to Lake Arrowhead, San Bernardino Co., Calif. via State Highway #2. This road saves about 20 miles over Highway 18 from San Bernardino, it is not a bad road. The first 7 or 8 miles are graded, the rest paved.
On the way, we stopped at a canyon 6 mi. N of Crestline, San Bernardino Co., Calif. and rolled more logs, without finding Eusatia. However, Got took! Small Crotalus viridis and a large Gopherotus multicarinatus. Stopped again about 3 mi. N of Crestline, and hunted Eusatia unsuccessfully. Drove on to Lake Arrowhead, where we stopped for a few moments, then drove around to the N shore of the lake, where we camped at: - North Shore Public Camp Ground, Lake Arrowhead, San Bernardino Nat. P. For., San Bernardino Co., Calif.
The country all the way from the Canyon 6 mi. N of Crestline to Lake Arrowhead seems quite a bit more lush & more heavily vegetated than the country around Big Pine Camp, because the Q. Kelloggii in the San Bernardino mountains is in leaf, whereas it was merely budding in the San Gabriels. At about 6:45 P. M. while eating supper we heard a Screator howled Owl calling. After Supper Bob showed me a novel way to collect bats. He took his 8' steel fishing rod and waved it in the air, and the vibrations attracted the bats flying over camp. They hovered over the end of the rod, and he would try to hit them with the tip of the rod. I missed one on the wing, but that was as close as we came.