Pinto, Dean 2005 Journal Snow Lake and Middle Emigrant Lake, Emigrant Wilderness, Stanislaus National Forest, Tuolumne Co., CA (cat) Aug. 17 When I reached Drizzly Meadow, I found a pond a little past the turnoff to Emigrant Pass where I saw a garter snake. I collected it as well as one P. regilla tadpole and two smaller, blackish tadpoles that are either B. canorus or B. [illegible] (SMR52-55). I continued along the trail, descending to Emigrant Meadow Lake and then south to Middle Emigrant Lake. I walked NW up the ridge above Middle Emigrant Lake and then turned south to walk up a small creek that ran down from a sort of cirque on the ridge. I had seen seeps from afar and wanted to check them out. There were small seeps along the creek on both sides, but mostly on the west side. I started flipping rocks at 4PM and found a subadult H. platycephalus out near a small hole among ferns in a fairly dry spot towards the top. I collected it (SMR56) as well as a Nebria beetle. I checked up to the main area of seeps near the top, where the habitat looked great but there wasn't much to turn. It looks like there was an extensive seep zone here earlier in the season), but all except a few areas were dry when I saw it. I found six more juvenile salamanders later where I found the first one, all under rocks. The rock here is granite and the vegetation consists of grass, ferns, willow, leather, and many wildflowers. I took the largest juvenile I found (SMR57) and stopped searching at 5:30PM, without seeing any adults. The weather today was cold and mostly overcast, with thunderclouds and thunder but no rain.