Ronto, Sean 2005 Journal June 8 Charlie Canyon, Inyo National Forest, Inyo Cr., CA (cont.) and lots of herpetals. I didn't really know where to look so I just walked up the canyon for about and hour and then turned around. I went back at night, following the road from Oak Creek until it crosses the creek at the juncture with Charlie Canyon. I walked through the brush and trees along the creek, but sometimes I had to crawl since it was so dense. I found a single E. platycephalus (SMR29), an adult female, right alongside the stream in the wet glass and vegetation. I searched for an hour but found no more salamanders. The area was unlike any Hydromantes habitat I've seen before; extremely dense vegetation, marshy soil with leaf litter and few or no rocks around. June 9 Cottonwood Creek, Golden Trout Wilderness Inyo Cr., CA I went to look at Barbara Diiniani's Site #60 at Cottonwood Creek. I walked west from the parking lot across Poison Meadow to one of the tributaries of Cottonwood Creek on the other side (36.438349N, 118.17067°W (WG584, 10m acc.), 3061m elev.). The creek had lots of willows in it and the area was very snowy, so I couldn't find many rocks to flip. The weather was cloudy and cold, with snow flurries. I later realized that I wasn't at the right site - I was much too high and too far west.