Hauken, James 1977 Journal 11 Sept Hotel Tabarlin San Jose' Prov. De San Jose', Costa Rica decided to return to San Jose. Today, I made an ill-fated attempt to get to Chirripo by bus. Arriving at the Cartago bus station at ~ 8 AM I was told that the next bus to Chirripo was at 1 PM. I decided to return to San Jose', but stopped along the way at Tres Rios to gole around in any available habitat. Little of this exists, as most of the land is occupied by either fenced-in homes + gardens or coffee hillsides planted to coffee. The latter might be productive but I doubt it as the coffee fields differ from those which I've seen in Mexico in that here almost all trees other than coffee + banana (for shade) have been removed and there is little litter apparent. I did turn garbage and rotting vegetation in a vacant lot along the Pan Am Highway just E of town and collected two snakes under brush. I returned to San Jose', ate breakfast, and re-tooled for a trip by bus to Turrialba which Once the I reached at ~ 12 Noon. I walked back from the bus station towards San Jose' where the road begins a steep ascent and there followed a stream through a partially cleared hillside turning any available cover.