Field notes, v1390
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1980. 18 June p3. 18 more or less the same trail, arriving in camp, exhausted, at 9 pm. Our dogs were more tired than we, with very sore feet - it was not a good walk to do in one's bare feet. 19 June 1980 Plimley Mine area, to the pass. carried traps up to the pass, making sets in the rock outcrops along the road in the hope of getting some Eutamias and Peroryseus crinitus. Set 10 stations, one Sherman, one Museum Special per station, baited with oats coated with peanut butter and bacon grease, in an attempt to saturate the outcrops, in the rock outcrops on both sides of the short spur road (where the main road levels out a bit). 10 stations/outcrop. The second outcrop has the "cave" I examined on 17 June. Set 4 gopher sets in the flat between outcrops. Also set 10 stations in rock outcrop on S side of pass and 6 on N side. While setting traps on S side, we heard some Rock Wrens loudly scolding. We stopped to listen and watch. A Grey Fox, the object of the scolding, walked into view, stopped in a small clearing about 10 meters from us, looked at us for several seconds, then continued on its way about 15-20 meters, stopped and looked again, then proceeded in