Field notes, v1400
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Gymnogyps californianus April 22, 1946 Big Pine Lookout, Calif. cherry saddle. We left the car & hiked to - ward the Big Pine Lookout (leaving car 3:40). at 4:15 we were looking at Madulce LO from the # SW side. We saw two condors circling 200 ±' above the Madulce Ridge, & 5 ± min- tes later they were soaring E. Sky 3/10 cirrus, fair wind earlier today but milly 4 p.m. We continued on & arrived at Big Pine LO at about 7 p.m. No one had driven beyond so where our car was for weeks or months, but there were a few horse tracks & footprints. The forest had of course been closed during hunting season the last few years. Madulce LO had not been manned in recent years. At Big Pine LO we found a radio log signed Harriet Boyce for periods from June 1 to Oct. 31, 1945 - she is the one who supposedly saw a young condor being fed nearby. Fair wind sprang up about 8 p.m. April 23, 1946 Mission Pine, Calif. with Ted Peyton Jr. left Big Pine lookout at 6:35 a.m. & hiked toward Mission Pine. Sky 1/10 cirrus - status fair E. wind, moderate temperatures. We reached the big pines at head of Falls Canyon at 9:30 and sat on the slope looking out over Bunter Knoll in