Knits; Dear 2005 Journal June 6 Convict Creek, clnys National Forest, Mono Co., CA I drove from San Francisco over Honda Pass, where I wanted to check out the Hydromantes sites, but they were covered by many feet of snow. I drove to Convict Lake to try to get swab samples from the A. platycephalus population I visited last year. I hiked up to the site in the side canyon above the washed-out bridge (37.56046°N, 118.87284°W (WGS 84, 18m acc.), 2729m elev.) but the water level was so high that nearly all the habitat was submerged. The creek was too high to cross, so I flipped rocks on the east side where we found most of the salamanders last year. There was a lot of snow and ice on the other side of the creek. I returned at 10:30PM but many of the rocks were frozen over. It was below freezing and extremely windy, so I guess it was too cold for the salamanders to be on the surface. I'll have to return to the site later or in the summer. June 7 Pine Creek, clnys National Forest, clnys Co., CA I hiked up the Pine Creek Pass trail to find one of Norman Giuliani's Hydromantes localities along Pine Creek above the tungsten mine (Site #92). I stopped where a large creek crossed the trail (37.35418°N, 118.7017°W. (WGS 84, 9m acc.), 2566m elev.)