California Condor Eben McMillan 14 January 1964 One-quarter of a mile, moved out to the Northeast and out of sight behind the brush covered and rocky ridge that forms the North barrier of Sulpher Canyon. I proceeded to hike to the South facing Top of Hopper Mountain while I went North along the trail heading along the east slope of Hopper Mountain to the road that goes out on Hopper Rim to the top of Spring Canyon Trail. When I reached the Saddle that is near the top of Hopper Mountain, on the South facing side, and along the Crest of which passes a Jeep road that connects the Percy Ranch area with the Top of Hopper Mountain, I noted reasonably fresh tracks of a Narrow gauged automotive vehicle that had traversed this road since we were here on January 5, 1964. The Tracks left by this vehicle were not of small tires, but seemed quite large and did not have traction grip or snow tread. Before coming down the steep incline from the top of South Hopper Mountain this vehicle had been stopped for sometime as an accumulation of Oil, that had leaked from the engine of this vehicle, was substantial enough that were it to have been deposited in a matter of less than a minute it would have been a bad enough leak to have caused trouble to this vehicle within an hour's time. This vehicle only traveled one direction on this road and what signs I observed pointed to the direction of travel to have from Hopper Mountain towards the Percy Ranch, and Soda Creek. I would guess from what I observed, that these tracks had been made within the last 3 or 4 days. At 3:07 P.M. a Condor flew over me, fast, heading SW with a wind that was blowing strongly and evidently with -