"Pearson 1951 22 extracted 2 males to bring home with us. March 9, 1951 Shasta Lake, Shasta Co., Calif. Left about 4AM with Joe Gorman, Bill Hoodin & Bob Bailey. Arrived at Redding about 9AM & proceeded to look up a Mr Palmer, referred to us by Dr Willes of Palo. With Mr Palmer we drove out 299 to the dirt road leading in to the Squaw Creek camp that Joe was interested in for his salamanders. We only were able to drive in one or 2 miles before we ran into a snow storm and impassable roads. Mr. Palmer suggested that we could get to all the area that interested us by boating across Shasta reservoir & offered to lend us his boat and outboard motor. With much herring & hawing and waiting around for Palmer's son Bruce who was to accompany us, we finally got started about 4PM. The motor was not altogether reliable, however, so the trip across the lake took over an hour. We landed on a small creek flowing into the McCord branch of the reservoir, and thence started our climb up to Potter cave with provisions & sleeping bags. Potter is a limestone cave with a large opening and lots of flat camping space within the mouth of the cave. As we reached the cave the sun had