Wearing smooth soled shoes in the desert could get a person killed. Most of  
my desert work involved crumbly granite boulders in soft soil slopes that  
require Vibram soles to prevent slippage and nasty tumbles. Believe me, no one  
would want to pack me out of the wilderness. Maybe the dig kit should include 
an  additional pair of flat shoes for digging?
 
Back to Las Pilitas Rockshelter in Baja California in 1969, there is at  
least one lurker who has not introduced himself and who was covered with the  
"coal dust" black sediment that I mentioned yesterday. He will recall that sweat  
cut through the black making us look like zebras with vertical stripes. The 
sad  thing is that at least two of our old field crew have passed on to the 
great dig  pit in the sky.
 
Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.