Eleven Days in Anza Borego - SAN JACINTO - SAN GREGORTA & THE SANTA ROSAS LOOKING N FROM THE N FLANK OF WHALE PEAK 1 'March 15 1991 · all day setting caches of food & water with Mr T · blizzards · snowstorms · rain · sandstorms · cold · March 16 · set off alone with a heavy pack into Canyon Sin Nombre · crumbling sandstone · grey · ochre · eau de nil · smoke trees · walk 2 hours · climb low rock formation E of Canyon mouth · paint view W · find cache 1 · make camp · a cold clear starry night · tent frozen · March 17 · pack · map inaccurate so I'm lost for an hour · find Valecito Wash · fork N into Arroyo Secco Del Diablo · to Diablo Dropoff for cache 2 · Mice have holed the water container · 4 gallons lost · aargh! search for painting site · make camp on a bleak plateau · March 18 · this is a cheerless place · work all day painting Carrizo Badlands · BB arrives · March 19 · a storm nearly blows the tent away · move camp to the bottom of a dry mudflow · work all day in a freezing wind · March 20 · painting in impossible conditions · March 21 · pack · bushwack across a lunar landscape to Fish Creek · N & NE · Whale Peak covered in snow · walk all day in a fierce cold wind · 22 March · walk to the Squeeze & cache 3 · load new supplies & water & walk to painting site 3 · an airborne ranger checks on us from his cockpit with a bullhorn · drawing all afternoon · 23 March · painting all day · bright but cold · a bitterly cold night · 24 March · painting dawn to dusk in a cold wind · a night hike to keep warm · 25 March · clouds racing across the sky · snow down to 3000 feet · a storm looks imminent · pack · hike in a strong headwind blowing sand to Mr T's for the first wash in l0 days · Approx 39·5 miles'