Notes, Sean 2005 Journal Upper Yosemite Falls and Granite Lakes, Yosemite National Park, Mariposa and Tuolumne Co., CA August 3 I hiked up the trail from Camp 4 to Upper Yosemite Falls. I turned off the trail and walked to the base of the falls to look for salamanders (37.75571°N, 119.59781°W [WGS84,43m acc.], 1497m elev. - GPS point from ~50m S of falls). There was still a lot of water flowing over the falls, so the spray zone was fairly large. I walked into the area behind the falls and flipped rocks from 1:05-1:55PM but found no salamanders. The habitat looked good, with lots of damp rocks and no vegetation but it might help to come back at night or earlier in the year. Many of the mossy cracks in the granite wall behind the falls had dried up. This locality is reported by J. Adams but the MVZ doesn't have a specimen. On the hike out, I saw a Gyrinidae sp. on the trail (37.74904°N, 119.60206°W [WGS84,18m acc.], 1562m elev.). I drove to Tiego Pass and hiked into Granite Lakes, where Sean Scherillo found salamanders. I started searching in seeps and stream habitat on the W side of the lakes at 8:45PM and found a large adult female Rhyacotriton olympicus in a wet seep at 9:45PM (37.92710°N, 119.28527°W [WGS84,5m acc.], 3607m elev.), about 150m above the lake level. I got mouth swabs and photos (GL2). The area had lots of east-facing seeps and lots of grass, heather, Sarcococca, other herbaceous plants and willows, and there was still a lot of snow. I searched until 10:20PM but didn't find any more salamanders.