Field notes, v1389
Page 137
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P.A. Kelly 1985 Journal food committee excelled itself again with a big dinner of burritos. 2 May 72 Got up at 5:30 am and checked all the Shermans. Lots of Neotoma, Dipodomys, Peromyscus but only one Perognathus longimembris. Collected all traps, we cleared off the camp site, had breakfast, made pack lunches, and left for Darwin Falls (Argus Flus) by 8:45. 3 May 72 Darwin Falls (c. 4mi W Panamint Spring,) Argus Flus, Inyo Co., CA. We arrived at Darwin Falls after the harrowing experi- iences of passing through Trona (Tosauna) and getting intimately acquainted with the road-surfacing techniques of Inyo Co. Council. All cars got covered in a gooey, oily tar-based mess while Tom Wales had the misfortune of rear-ending a badly sign-posted road vehicle in a dust cloud. One car (2 students) got lost & I didn't arrive in time - some people don't know how to read plain instructions. John Carothers waited for the 2 absentees while the rest of us began the precipitous hike up the creek bed to the falls. I had a few scary moments trying to get foothold,