'Ten days in Organ Pipe Desert looking north to a pass through Bates Mountains · 4th March 1991 · with BB · camp off Puerto Blanco trail · a clear starry night · read by moonlight· 5 March · hike 4 miles NE with water & food for cache 2 · across gravel plains arroyos · back to camp · to Bates Well by jeep· thanks Don · leaving caches 3 & 4 · lunch · goodbye Don · complete silence · hike SE, E, NE with terrible packs to Growler Wash, make camp · draw view · 5 - 6 March · paint dawn to dusk · very cold night · 7 March · pack · walk E in dry washes & fields of catsclaw & jumping cholla · ouch · arrive at pass through Bates Mountains · search for painting site but no luck · stabbed by jumping cholla & extract spines with pliers · to cache 2 & hike W across a plain · camp between 2 arroyos · 8 March · flu/bronchitis · search for painting site ·start drawing looking N to the pass · draw all day · ground temperature at noon ll0° · maybe we heard a javelina snorting around camp during the night · March 9 · paint all day until the light fails · BB fetches water from cache 3 · March l0 · very hot · painting all day · March 11 · paint until noon · pack · hike SE across a plain & turn S down a deep arroyo between Bates Mountains & Cypriano Hills · across a wide valley · Ajo lilies · fragile · thrust straight through the gravel · walk to cache 3 by dusk · March 12 · pack · hike to Quitobaquito Springs & to Burro Spring · to the Mexico border & under the wire & into Mexico & back · do small painting looking SE to Mexican mountains · hike back to trail junction & cache 4 · camp · March 13 · pack · leave · a total 0f 33·2 miles hiking & ten days in the desert · wildlife: phainopepla · black chinned humming bird · small lizards · nighthawk · raven · turkey vulture · kestrel · quails · flicker · Ajo lilies · pupfish · horny toad · scrubjay