Field notes, v1600
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Seib, R. 1984 Tehuantepec to Cerro Azul, Chiapas, Mexico 16 Oct We began hiking at 1500, laden with backpacks containing sleeping bags, tent, drinks, collecting equipment, food, lantern, and flashlight. The hike itself only took about an hour, but the trail is indistinct in places and almost impossible to follow by oneself the first time. It's important to know that if you go by yourself you only take the main trail from the road as far as the ridge line. From there, you turn left on a smaller, less distinct trail following the ridge to the palm forest. We set up the tent in the only bare patch on the trail in the entire forest. This consisted mainly of a mass of roots for us to toss and turn on the whole night. I managed to collect for 2 hours before darkness set in. There were virtually no logs to turn, but numerous logs were rotted and I tore them apart, finding only millipedes within. Found a shigee Bolitoglossa occidentalis-like, in a small bromeliad. At dark I lit the lantern and we were set upon by hundreds of hungry mosquitoes. Lantern-walked for 90 minutes and found one Bolitoglossa sticking its nose out of the heart of a