Roster, Sean 2006 Journal Hell Hollow, Sherlock Creek and N Fork Merced River, Mariposa Co., CA Jan. 7 Yesterday, Ted Papenfuss and I drove to Hell Hollow to look for H. lewisi. We walked from Bagby across Hwy 49 and down to the arm of Lake McClure. We went up a small canyon on the other side where I thought my data dlogger was. Ted found a large adult H. lewisi in a crack in a shale rock at about 6 PM. I walked up the canyon slipping rocks and found a juvenile H. lewisi under a shale rock (37.60641 N, 120.13807 W [WG58], 295m elev., 21m occ.] but did not see my data logger anywhere. Conditions may have been slightly dry for salamanders. We stayed the night in Mariposa. In the morning, we met Mike Sutton and drove to Sherlock Creek. We passed a locked gate on the road (Mike had a key from BLM) and drove 2.6 mi further to a point where there was an impassable stream crossing. Mike said he had found salamanders all along the mossy hillside above the stream, which had an eastern exposure. I looked on this hill and found 8 H. lewisi and a juvenile Aneides lugubris, all under mossy pieces of shale. The vegetation consisted of oaks, pines and chaparral. Ted found two more H. lewisi a little further down the road at a rocky point, and I found 3 Taricha torosa in or alongside the stream. Mike searched a little back along the road and uphill but found nothing. We searched for about 1 hr 10 min. I kept the 3 newts, Aneides