Field notes, v4224
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Posts, Dean 2006 Journal Jan. 27, 28 Hell Hollow at Bagby and Flite Cave, S Fork Merced River, Mariposa Co., CA I drove with Juan Parra to Hell Hollow at Bagby on highway 49. We walked across the highway, down to the stream just above the edge of Lake McClure and across and up to the forest cliff canyon above the lake, where Fred and I had found H. burnus before. We started turning stones and found an adult female H. burnus under a piece of shale in the canyon. The area was messy and damp but not wet (8:15PM). We continued up the canyon and Juan found another adult female under shale. (37.60743N, [illegible] 120.13721W [WGS84, 9m acc], 183m elev). I took mouth swabs from both of these salamanders: HH1 Hell Hollow 1 H. burnus adult female photo HH2 Hell Hollow 2 H. burnus adult female 1020473 1020474 We searched for 1.5 hrs but did not find any more; I determined that my data logger is not in this canyon, but in a smaller one further to the south. We camped at Bagby. On the morning on Jan. 28 we drove to the junction of the South and Middle Forks of the Merced on Hwy 140 and parked. We hiked south toward Flite Cave. We stopped about 1mi in and searched from 11:15-11:45AM in a small west-facing stream gully with lots of moss and shale (37.647972N, 119.88120W [WGS84, 14m acc], 467m elev). I found an adult B. diabolinus, which I collected, but no H. burnus. We continued on to Flite Cave and got