writes, Dean 2005 Journal July 5 N Fork of Perry Aiken Creek, White Mountains, dnygs G, CA Yesterday, I hiked up the Pine Creek Pass trail to Pine Lake. I checked out some seeps along the trail that looked okay for salamanders but didn't find any. Dean Schmittle and his friend Tina drove out to meet me. Today we drove to the White Mountain Research Station, following the road to the Barcroft Lab. Dean wanted to collect Nabina beetles from the Whites and I wanted to look for a salamander seen in 1952 in the N Fork of Perry Aiken Creek by a geography graduate student named Amy Powell. He told Mr. Schmittle about it and said it looked like a picture of Ensatina. We walked from the field station along the jeep trail to White Mtn. Peak and camped near the edge of the dropoff into N Fork Perry Aiken. We took daypacks and started down into the canyon at 6:20 PM. The head of the canyon just W of White Mtn. Peak is extremely steep. We slid down on talus and then on snow for many hundreds of feet to get down to where the slope decreased somewhat and a small stream emerged. We continued to descend, flipping rocks along the stream. Downed down, vegetation increased and so did the flow of the stream as many small streams met to form Perry Aiken Creek. The stream at this point was quite large and had dense willow on both sides, with a sweet smelling plant also in abundance. This area looked quite good for Hydrasymetra, and we continued to flip rocks along the stream. The soil was very dry only a few feet away from the stream. As we went down, little core