Big Pine Mt. - Continued - Page 128 California Condor: Eben McMillan 23 June 1963 As we proceeded eastward towards West Big Pine Lookout, more deer signs were now seen on the trail and a mountain lion had passed along in front of us on this trail either last night or the night before; also a bear had been traveling over this trail recently. A Golden Eagle appeared briefly to the northeast of us, only to dip behind a mountain and disappear. We arrived at West Big Pine Lookout at 4:30 p.m., and spent some time here taking photographs and acquainting ourselves with the Geography of the area which can be well observed from this lookout. A road serves this West Big Pine Lookout and is well maintained even though the lookout has not been in service for several years. Several windows about the lookout had been broken out and things appeared generally unkempt. Trail-bikes and our automobile had been to the lookout since the last rain but no shooting up of signs nor general rampage could be evidenced thereabouts. We left West Big Pine Lookout at 5:00 p.m., and soon hit the main Forest Service Roadway that comes from the Santa Ynez River up past Little Pine Mountain, to Big Pine Mountain, Alamar Guard Station and then on out to Santa Barbara Potrero and Santa Barbara Canyon. Two deer were seen on this roadway as we proceeded along west side of Big Pine Mountain and a Golden Eagle circled above us, mountain-top-wise for several minutes. The top 1000 feet of Big Pine Mountain is well timbered with elegant stands of Yellow and Sugar Pine as well as Cedar and Fir. A pair of Ravens were about in the forest trees and a small flock of Band-Tailed Pigeons flew out of the Pine Trees. Mountain Quail ran along the road in front of us. We arrived at Alamar Guard Station at 7:00 p.m., and promptly went into quarters there as a brisk north—