Staff 1977 Journal Barillas - Huevetenyo. 20 June and a mole - the pair for 5 dollars/day. I'll have more to say on that after we get them. He couldn't have them 'till tomorrow, so we decided to work the pine forest north of town. Paul had been there twice before I got a few helps, so we decided to give it a go. We drove up to the closest point to the woods and hiked up one of the many paths. The road was at 5200'el. I we worked thru the pines ( - 5500 - 5800ft) into the Medrono (el. 5900). There we looked about 10 bromeliads, I got a salamander out of 1 of them. These were big bromeliads - the medrono is around 55-60 mn. S-U. I is one of the B. helmrichi group - maybe helmrichi or Paul's "big brown". We continued chopping bromeliads, and then rested on a bit. It is a easy-to-move-thru forest. Maybe 3 tree spp. In another bromeliad we got a Tropidopissas - fire animal. Then later I got another - but unfortunately cut it in half. We continued up - got a few leptodactylids and a Bufo valliceps. Then we hit the crest, I saw real cloud forest across a small valley. We hiked over - all blueberry scrubby prickles - really awful, and then hit the woods. (In the first woods we also got 2 Bairdia). This new patch is many spp composition.