Dean 2005 Journal Ritter Pass, Southwest of Ediza Lake, Ansel Adams Wilderness, Inyo National Forest, [illegible] Co., CA Aug. 8 Dean and I hiked out of Peeler Lake yesterday, but the weather was bad so we didn't hike anywhere in the afternoon. We hiked in from Agnew Meadows this morning on the Shadow Creek trail and camped past Ediza Lake. We met Fura and her friend on the trail and they joined us. We walked west upslope towards Ritter Pass. There were still large snowfields and we hiked across one, above which many branches of the stream came down the slope over rock outcrops. We split up and started searching in the area near the streams at 3 PM. I found two salamanders in a seep area alongside the largest stream, under rocks in an area with grass, heather, small willows and various wildflowers (37.67630°N, 119.18164°W [WGS84, 7m acc.], 2954m elev.). I continued flipping rocks as I went upslope and found 6 more E. platycephalus until I stopped searching at 4:20 PM. I got mouth swabs and photos of the salamanders. I kept two adults (SMR43 and 44) and released the rest at the point of capture. The seep and stream habitat was on an eastern exposure and the rock was a fine grained grey granite ([illegible] perhaps another type of igneous rock) with a fair amount of quartz in places. Fura found two salamanders about 100m N along another stream but had nothing to collect them in; I went over and found another two, which I disabled (EL7+8, 37.67862°N, 119.18185°W [WGS84, 7m acc.], 3040m elev.) at 6 PM. Dean didn't find any to