Davis 27 946 Junciales National Monument, San Benito Co. calif. to Canyon, Contra Costa Co., Calif. May 13, 1946. woman there told us that the road was impassable. Although shown on the road maps as an improved road what we could see of it resembled two wagon tracks in the dirt. The woman then directed us to another cut off to Idria Mines [town of Idria of the road maps], about 7 mi. back on the road to Hernandy. This cut-off we found, after numerous inquiries. It crosses a ford over the San Benito River and goes through Clear Creek Canyon. This is the most dangerous road I have ever seen, being a one-lane dirt road banked away from the canyon wall and with numerous erosion pockets along the road edge. In many pla- ces one could look from the car win- dow directly into the stream bed two or three hundred feet below. There are numerous laterals from the main road, but by sticking to the main road we traversed