1976 B. Shaffer. Journal. 8 Sept. We've been in San Jose, staying at the Tala Inn & getting things together. Doug Robinson at the University has been very helpful - spent a lot of time going over localities, etc. We have also hooked up to Hugh Rowell, from Berkeley, & are going collecting for a couple of days to him. Today we got a car from O.T.S. (Land Rover & $20/day, .16/km.) & went out to San Ramon. We went down Hwy. I went to San Ramon, & took the exit due North. There are 2 roads, we took the one to Angeles Norte. It is dirt, but not bad at all. We were looking for good spots both for hoppers & grasshoppers & so stopped at various spots. The 1st one was 13.3 km. N. San Ramon, where I got 1 leptotrityl'd frog. The spot was dry & not much good, so we went on. At 15.5 km N. San Ramon we stopped again. Hugh found a new species of glasshopper, so we stayed a couple of hours. There was a good patch of rainforest to the W. of town, which Louise & I worked for about 1/2 hr - unfortunately nothing showed up. We then started to walk along the road - at first just looking, then peeling moss. All the other stuff came out of the slopes - except the 2 snakes, one of which Louise saw as a clearly, & one which I removed from a log. Only one