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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