June 6-7 Car, when I started. What was intended to be a twenty-minute nap turned (COLD) into a 90-minute sleep. At 13:45 I continued up the road, through ? closed, unlocked gates; beyond the third, the road turned E, away from Doe Creek. So I turned around & parked at the windmill just S. of 3rd gate. I took a compass reading WNW & took off cross-country, first into one deep, watered ravine, over a tall ridge, down a second ravine about 3/4 mile until a waterfall and confining canyon prevented further descent. Then, ? waiting for a thunderstorm to pass over, I surmounted a smaller ridge to a third intermittently watered drainage, beyond which was the obvious scar of a recently bulldozed fire break. Thinking this a route to still regain Doe Creek, I ascended until the fire break ended at a lower slope of a very high ridge. Looking down the scar, I could see a grove of very large sycamores at the bottom, at the confluence of 2 canyons (a windmill was also present there). All this upland country was oak dominated woodland, with some oak savannas to the E. of the ascending road. From the sycamore grove, I walked downstream 1 1/2-2 miles, then did a fairly slow traverse to the E. on an old roadbed, back to the main road, which I followed back to the vehicle. I arrived there at 17:27. I then drove slowly down to Culberson, stopping frequently among the sycamores, listening for goldfinches & whitethorn. I arrived back at the Craigs house at 21:00, and was treated to coffee cake! I departed at 22:00 and returned through the grasslands (to unintentional detour to the international boundary when I missed a turn in the dark), stopping at Gray Ranch H.P. to return the negative Gray Ranch signs one above the other with. I then drove to Chantor Canyon in the nearby Peloncillo Mountains, arriving at my campsite at midnight. I then pitched my tent and fell quickly to sleep.